10 Movies Designed To Give You An Existential Crisis
7. Office Space
Cult classic comedy Office Space is, in addition to being a total laugh riot, one of the most relatable and deeply-felt movies ever made about the experience of working in an office - or any soul-draining job, really.
Mike Judge's deliciously heightened black comedy focuses on a group of office workers dissatisfied with their personal and professional lives, with much of the film's bleak humour derived from the dehumanising office culture rituals. As protagonist Peter (Ron Livingston) puts it himself:
"We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements."
To anyone who's ever been told they've "got a case of the Mondays," Office Space will be an immediately soothing, cathartic viewing experience.
If you're stuck in a job you hate, where you're constantly held up by bureaucratic bulls**t and relentlessly micro-managed by an excess of stuffed shirt "superiors," Office Space will prove both stingingly funny and more than a little terrifying.
Though it hopefully won't inspire you to try and actively steal from your employers as in the movie, if it pushes you to consider the toxicity of corporate culture and seek more personally rewarding employment elsewhere, that's hardly a bad thing.