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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- How to Keep a Job
- Year
- 1949
- Abstract
- What you need to do to stay employed: choose the right job, get along with colleagues, maintain positive attitude, etc.
- Notes
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Produced: Coronet Instructional Films
Sponsor: N/A
Run Time: 10:46
Audio/Visual: Sd, C - Keyword
- Occupations: Vocational training;Social guidance;Teenagers;Social guidance;Teenagers
- Theme
- Not since The Usual Suspects
- Review
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A recently terminated young man applies for a new job and is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with his prospective employer. First Mr. Wiley asks Ed why he was fired, and when add replies "Why was I fired?" Wiley replies, "How should I know?" Ed agrees with the intelligence of this reply, but it was all just a gambit in Mr. Wiley's little game: he does know why Ed was fired!
Wiley continues playing his little cat-and-mouse game with Ed throughout the film, seeming to care deeply about the boy, but in the end, he has been played again. Brothers vanish and are reinvented, and Wiley is revealed to be a master manipulator on the level of Kaiser Soze.
(Reviewer: dynayellow) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F