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The Argentine short film "Life for Hire" was released in 2008 and then won a lot of awards in 2009, and there are even rumors that the short film has won 101 awards.
The short film takes a metaphorical approach, alarm clocks, mirrors, tables and chairs, elevators, hangers, traffic lights... All tools are played by people.
Some people will understand this phenomenon as a human labor surplus, so it needs to be done by people, which is not correct, because the result of labor surplus is that the number of low-tech jobs will continue to decrease.
The metaphor of this phenomenon is that
Although the people who play the lamp at the end of the story choose not to make the lamp, there will still be a new lamp to replace it, and the whole society will still operate coldly.
If you see this short film in 2020, you probably won't have the kind of wow you had when you saw it in 2008.
Because in the past decade, there have been more and more works reflecting social reality, but in 2008, when the social division of labor and class solidification were far less serious than they are now.
The Employed Life was published at the time as a forward-looking and creative work, so it received high praise.
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"The Wage-Oriented Life" describes an era when the social division of labor is highly detailed, and we need to first make a simple understanding of the history of the social division of labor.
The Division of Labour in Society is an economic phenomenon that is biased toward sociology, and it first attracted attention at the beginning of the First Industrial Revolution, and the earliest proposed theory of social division of labor was the founder of classical economics, Adam. Smith.
Inherited by Adam. Ricardo, the classical economist of Smith's thought, also believed that the social division of labor was conducive to improving social productivity, and that in the process of social division of labor, the laborer would give the producer a comparative advantage.
The most famous phenomenon of social division of labor in history is the American entrepreneur Henry. Ford invented assembly line production technology, dividing the production of a car into 8772 hours.
Later, Marx developed the theory of social division of labor, and unlike classical economists, although Marx acknowledged that social divisions would increase productivity, he observed the limitations of the division of labor and found that the labor unions limited the comprehensive and free development of man.
The division of labor is the link between the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, and Marx believes that the division of labor will eventually be abandoned and eliminated.
The reason why the division of labor in human society is now highly developed is because the division of labor is the medium for people to achieve social exchange, and if a person does not participate in the social division of labor, he has no way to obtain the resources needed for social exchange.
Although "Life on Hire" depicts the phenomenon that everyone is objectified and everyone is hired, this short film does contain a wealth of equal ideas from another point of view.
The employer is also the hired, and the hired is also the hirer, which is a comforting point.
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Everyone in "Employed Life" is doing their own work expressionlessly.
Their lives are not determined by themselves, which is an exaggerated artistic effect, and people have enough choices about work and life in real life.
The film ends with a depiction of the person playing the lampshade throwing the lampshade on the ground and then leaving the frame.
The person who plays the lampshade leaves, there will be a new person who plays the lampshade to replace it, this is the essence of society, from primitive society to modern society, everyone is just a dispensable screw, and everyone who leaves society can function normally.
This truth is cruel, but it also contains vitality.
First of all, we can choose what kind of screw to play, for example, the lampshade wants to play the traffic light.
Role-play theory refers to the process of socialization of the self by playing the role of others, and role-play theory divides the self into the main self and the guest self.
The Lord I includes each person's unique self-characteristics, and the Guest I includes the social part of the self, which is the social requirements and expectations internalized by the self.
That is to say, the guest and self are also part of the self, and we cannot refuse to play a social role, because it is our nature to play a social role.
The freedom we have is to choose what social role to play, positive or negative, manual or mental...
If we don't like our jobs, our lives, and our lives, we have to reflect on ourselves.
Although the male protagonist in the story is only a doormat, from the beginning of the story to the end of the story, most of the people are hired by him, that is to say, his social status is still very good, but he is still unhappy.
Why wasn't he happy?
Because he doesn't genuinely like his work, society is left to work, and that means we're free, and we don't have to measure ourselves exactly by social standards.
When choosing your own job and life, you still need to consider your own feelings, not exactly social standards.
Behind the cruel truth is often contained in freedom, just like a person who is very desperate for you, you have the freedom not to like him, and there is no shortage of anyone in society, which means that you are very free.
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Author | Magical little
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