Comments on: It seems that my new favourite genre of films is work proceedurals https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2004/05/it-seems-that-my-new-favourite-genre-of-films-is-work-proceedurals Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: The Business Of Film | FreakyTrigger https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2004/05/it-seems-that-my-new-favourite-genre-of-films-is-work-proceedurals/comment-page-1#comment-94615 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:08:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/2004/05/it-seems-that-my-new-favourite-genre-of-films-is-work-proceedurals/#comment-94615 […] Now point 1) would pretty much rule our 2) in my book but would not necessarily rule out 3). Well when you look at their list it is clearly that they have wrestled long and hard with 3) and still found no way around it. Its hard to find flag waving, capitalist friendly films ABOUT business. At least not recently. The list they actually come up with have at least fifty percent which are critical in some way or other to big business. So Wall Street doesn’t make it, Boiler Room left on the side, the criminally under-rated* Shattered Glass is also sidelined (though it is more about journalism than business). But even when these are passed over they cannot complete their list without Glengarry Glen Ross making the cut: and one cannot think of a film which is more openly hostile to capitalism, know or love it. […]

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