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Film Review: The Apartment
Billy Wilder’s 1960 film, The Apartment, revolves around a compliant insurance clerk named C. ... Baxter, who unethically lends out his apartment to other company executives for their adulterous sexual affairs. As the film progresses, the plot thickens when the clerk, C. ... Baxter, learns that the elevator attendant, Miss Fran Kubelik, has been taken to his apartment by his married boss. The remainder of the film focuses on Baxter’s affected status of employment and his relationship with Miss Kubelik, as it grows progressively more complicated. Furthermore, Billy Wilder’s film, The Apartment, is a sophisticated, yet cynical projection of the corporate American life as a capitalist work society. Specifically, the film draws a close emphasis on the idea of the corrupt atmosphere of the typical American office. ... The film opens by playing its credits from the apartment window of a lonely, vulnerable office clerk, C. ... You see, I have this little problem with my apartment…I can’t always get in when I want to. ... In his selfish desire of gaining access to Baxter’s apartment, Sheldrake, although truly uninterested in Baxter’s work, immediately flatters Baxter:
A report here from Mr. ... Kirkeby tells me that several nights a week, you work late at the office without overtime…It also says here that you are alert, astute, and quite imaginative
The film also illustrates the reoccurring idea of the unethical business practice of the American work culture, throughout the early 60’s.
Approximate Word count = 1145
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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