The film expertly captured the feeling of “the one that got away,” portraying the instant and impossible connection between two people who must be together, but who cannot. As they share more with one another, they feel a romantic connection and reveal more and more personal details about their own lives.

Julie Delpy ( White) and Ethan Hawke ( Gattaca) play a disparate pair of travelers who decide to get off a train together in Vienna. Richard Linklater ( Boyhood) directed this minimalist masterpiece which featured two unlikely characters sharing a night walking and talking after meeting on a train. In what might be the most beloved movie of those who came of age in that decade, Before Sunrise captures all the possibility of love and angst and connection and potential that the evolving world of the 1990s offered. The result was a constant clash between old and new, and a never-ending slew of paper jams, flair, and ultimately massive layoffs. Management techniques had not evolved to meet the new challenges of a connected workplace, and college culture had not evolved to meet the professional requirements of an evolving marketplace. It seemed possible that a man could decide not to do his job anymore and be a hero while others could work their fingers to the bone and dwell unnoticed in a basement. The explosion of the internet and the dot-com boom meant nearly everyone who could breathe could get a well-paying job, and with a young class of new entrepreneurs carving out new territory and trying to win new talent, the office became a strange place-with new acronyms, technology, culture, and expectations of each worker.Įnter Office Space, in which the absurdity of some of that new culture reigns supreme.

For the younger crowd, it might be hard to imagine just how dramatically offices changed between 19. In directing his first live-action feature, it’s hard to overstate how perfectly Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge captured office culture of the late 90s.

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