Ever Wish your Boss were dead?
What do you do if you have a horrible boss who is making life hell for you, while you need the job due to complex reasons? ‘Horrible Bosses’ is a slightly dark comedy that paints such a scenario. Three friends each suffer under a horrible boss. So horrid their bosses are that they decide that the only way out of being tormented by them is that they kill each other’s boss to avoid being directly linked by motivation.
The unnerving part is when the audience is urged to empathise with their suffering, urged to believe that murder seems to be indeed the solution. What if you are in their shoes? What would you do? This being a comedy after all, there is no real violence, as they kind of bumblingly and somewhat creatively resolve their troubles.
It’s a reminder that even as we seek justice, we should avoid contemplating unethical solutions. Even if it seems to solve the problem for some time, to do so is to jump from the frying pan into the fire. We must find greater skilful means like the Bodhisattvas!
Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
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