your promises are dog shit.
Office Christmas Party should've been one of the more groundbreaking films of the past 20 years. Groundbreaking is definitely the wrong term to describe something of its caliber and intended impact, but what I mean is that it should've been fresh. It should've offered a new way to explore what can be done within the confines of comedy. It was set up, from the announcements in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, to be a hyperlink narrative - something that I've only seen referenced in relation to Robert Altman's expansive work of the '70s and his comeback period during the early '90s alongside Paul Haggis' rather simplistic Crash . The premise is a party - and we have a slew of characters we explore through, all of them driving the action to some extent. Unlike Altman and Tewkesbury's work, however, it had one primary focus: how an IT office copes with its impending closure through above-the-line people who seem to have it in for their personnel.