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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Il Posto ("The Place"...not The Place but a job placement) is a 1961 film from Italy directed by Ermanno Olmi.The story follows Domenico, a young man (very young, he doesn't look much more than 16) living in a run-down suburb of Milan. As the film opens, he goes downtown to get an office job that his parents are pushing him to take. After a series of vaguely embarrassing interviews and exams, he gets a menial, entry-level job, at a company so generic that the movie never says what the company makes or does.Decades of office drudgery and wage slavery loom, but there's one ray of sunshine amidst the gloom. A pretty girl named Antonietta shows up at the job application process along with Domenico. They take the tests together and have coffee for lunch. After the both of them get hired, Domenico keeps an eye out for Antonietta, hoping for romance.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 A Day in the Limelight
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 The A Day in the Limelight sequence has one of the office workers singing opera in a club after work. At the New Year's party at the end, he tries to get the band to play the theme from Otello so he can sing, but it's not a New Year's party song and the band refuses.
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 Coming of Age Story
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 Coming-of-Age Story: A rather melancholy tale of a young man starting out in adulthood, doomed to be an office drone.
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 Creepy Physical: The job applicants are subjected to not just aptitude tests but physical and psychological exams that are subtly dehumanizing. They are asked to do knee bends, with the women facing away from the doctor to avoid Panty Shots. They have to twirl their wrists. One older, balding, presumably desperate applicant is taken out of line and subject to a hearing test in full view of the younger applicants (he fails, and is not seen again). Domenico has to answer a battery of psychological questions like "did you ever wet the bed between the ages of 8 and 14?"
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