Meet “M” – M for Middle Manager, M for Meat
Puppet, M for Misdirected Empowerment. On this, the worst day of M’s
miserable life, he loses everything, but manages to regain his
self-respect through the questionable act of arresting it from a little girl.
From The Director’s Statement
“On one level, [the film] is the story of a small man, a middle manager,
who having lost his job, and more importantly, his self-esteem, desires
to leave his former place of employment with the little dignity he has
retained. Along his way, he is confronted by a child: someone with her
own desire, who does not and cannot understand any of the humiliations
that this simple man has recently endured. Her desire is pure: she needs
to be seen and acknowledged, and in a sense, allowed to reframe the world
into one of her own design. As he attempts tosatisfy his need, |
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