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It’s a strange new progression in action movies, really it is…after just getting done watching “Wanted”, I started to see a continuum.  Now, bear with me a second, because the first two parts actually came out in the same year, and the release dates and the actual start of progression dates could easily put one before the other, but we’re still going to be able to work with it.

First, we had Office Space, a movie that featured an office drone in a going-nowhere sort of life that decides he’s going to take his company for fat piles of loot via a computer virus, much like Superman III.

We then went on to Fight Club, a movie that featured an office drone in a going-nowhere sort of life who developed multiple personality disorder and ran amok forming a highly secretive organization devoted to blowing things up and random men punching each other for little to no clear reason.

We do not talk about Fight Club.

Finally we get to Wanted which features–you guessed it–an office drone in a going-nowhere sort of life who discovers he’s the son of a legendary assassin and takes up his father’s mantle. With lots and lots of explosions.

So if Fight Club was Office Space with more beatings, and Wanted was Fight Club with more explosions, then what’s next?  Jurassic File Clerk, maybe?  Wanted with more dinosaur-related disembowelments?

I’m not even sure I want to know what’s next, in all honesty.  Granted, I understand the appeal in this sort of movie–anyone who’s been an office drone understands it.  That longing to escape, or to at least STOP swallowing the nonsense and abuse of those other random office drones given a scrap of power just for the sake of a paycheck.  Maybe it’s not an escape so grandiose as computer viruses or Operation Mayhem or assassination in the family tradition, but it’s an escape nonetheless.

But still, other office drones, both former and present and even a little love for the future ones out there…is the problem someone else?  Is Corporate Hell other people?  Or is it in US, our lack of the courage to make our situation better?  Oh, sure…there’s a lot riding on it.  We can’t look at our fat abusive boss like they did in Wanted and tell them exactly what we think of them.  Oh, we CAN…if we’re willing to lose a livelihood.  And quite possibly, given the advanced state of the corporate condition, future livelihoods as well.  You may not even NEED to do anything so dramatic to permanently destroy your career–rumors get around and get mistaken for truth.  If your name is put into Google and someone ELSE with your name comes up, you may well not get that next job.

As long as corporate hiring officials are permitted to make hiring decisions on the strength of a MySpace page, no one is truly safe.

So what’s left to us?  Do we keep sucking it up and dreaming of an ever-more-tenuous retirement?  Do we strike off on our own, for better or worse?

Or do we just wait for the next action movie to lift us out of the depths of obscurity?

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