The Reluctant Fundamentalist post-9/11 review

    por Yuna: Movies

    Watching someone go from the model immigrant to the suspected threat is the kind of story that stays with you. The Reluctant Fundamentalist doesn't flinch from what happened to so many after 9/11, and it says more about that era than a dozen flag-waving productions combined. The way it shows how fast belonging can turn into suspicion is brutal but necessary

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    You have 20 minutes to convince me that you belong at Underwood Samson. Well, I've never gotten a B in my entire life, Dutchwood. And I'm about to graduate summa cum laude. Good, although I've heard that line several times today. What else? I also played varsity soccer four years straight. I'm glad you got some exercise. Changes. A position at our firm as a financial analyst is one of the most sought-after jobs in the entire world. Lift up the hood. Where are you from? Lahore in Pakistan. Tell me, changes, why did you want to come to America? In America, I get an equal chance to win. And whether or not you hire me, Jim, I am going to win. Good fucking answer. This is a hypothetical business. Thanks to groundbreaking research, BMUS transportation using 11-foot tall cylinders can teleport travelers to any destination in the world instantly. I want you to tell me what the company is worth. Information is in your binders. You have one hour. So that's us for the third quarter. Please continue. Because of these factors, I project the total value of BNUS at $48 billion, with revenue growing at an average 52% per annum for the first two years. I'm not with you on the growth rate. Cengiz, I've got a five-star safety rating from AB Towns. My travel cylinders only cost $11 million a piece. What is your analysis? Your company is worthless. Well, AB Towns is all well and good, but if your business is convincing a mother that you can successfully disarticulate and then reassemble all the molecules in her five-year-old thousands of miles away, This technology is at least a generation away from practical widespread usage. So your business is a travel, it's shipping, subcontainer scale shipping. Real world assignments come in on Monday. Nothing too exciting. Everybody will be disappointed. Almost everybody. How do you squeeze more productivity out of a company that pays its workers five bucks a day? I think the fat is there. You saying that they can effectively lose a quarter of their workforce A third A third is a big chunk I feel more comfortable shooting for a 15 reduction May I Please Okay so this entire sector is devoted to fixing mistakes that they make on the assembly line I say let's get in a team from Japan and fix the line. Then this entire crew becomes completely superfluous. I want to put together a team of consultants, the best. Done. Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years? I'd like to be a managing director at Underwood Samson. I think the first step to becoming a managing director is to be made an associate. We're upping you. You were the youngest associate in the history of Underwood Samson. Although I do believe appearances are important, success requires some adjustment in that department. Hold up! What you doing, man? The guy you're looking for is back there. Yeah, we'll get it. Don't do this, man. I ain't doing nothing but my job, little man. You ever had any combat training in Afghanistan? Of course I've never had combat training, you know, man. I've never set foot in Afghanistan. Don't get upset. I am upset. I'm upset about my treatment. I'm not a fucking terrorist. Have you ever been a member of a terrorist organization? I'm sick of having to try and prove a negative. So why don't you either charge me with something or let me go? How do you feel about the United States of America? I love the United States of America. I was just coming to see you. In fact, I'm not going to do any more valuations. I'm pretty firm, Jim. You accepted the position of associate lesson three months ago. You leave now, you'll be giving up all hope of ever doing this kind of work again. Anywhere you'll be committing professional suicide. I know I've let you down, that I'm through. You think you're the only person who's experienced injustice first hand? From a rock out there anywhere in this city and it'll land on the grave of someone who's seen worse than you. Maybe you're having some kind of a breakdown. I will see to it that you will get some rest after this is done. But you will treat my commitment to you with the respect that it deserves. To myself as well. I have a commitment to myself. Do you want to be an insurance salesman, Cengiz? With a mortgage and a migraine? Is that the life you envision for yourself? As opposed to what? I have to live it true. to live in truth. Put your fucking shoes on and you go down to that office and you do the job you were hired to do. It's not my job anymore.