"Here is what's going to happen"

This line is from the movie Problemista. A modern day satire revolving around a young man named Alejandro, an El Salvadorean aspiring toy designer who moves to NYC (I choke while writing this out) on a visa frenzy to shoot his shot at Hasbro. The corpo-time clock starts to run out on his work visa, so he finds himself running a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the land of opportunity that is … Bushwick, NYC…

There are layers of irony and insurmountable repressed cultural + socioeconomic narratives throughout the film that carries so much weight in what is ultimately the failures of labor distribution in America. I have the privilege of not worrying about my citizenship status… so I don't end up in situations like entertaining pseudo-homoerotic exchanges on Craigslist for c*sh. Although, I have been through something adjacent to this, to which I can elucidate, but the jarringly obvious one is appeasing a Tilda Swinton figure in one's early career or otherwise.

Tilda Swinton, god bless her heart, did a fantastic job of portraying a godly difficult (female) figure of authority. Dangling a carrot in front of Alejandro's face - that is the visa - in exchange of a "trial period", where he must fulfill her odd duties for the potential of a future that … holy f*ck… he so f*cking deserves.

"Here is what's going to happen"

Without spoiling too much of what is socially acceptable to summarize (outside of IMDB)… Alejandro physically infiltrates the dragon's lair (Hasbro HQ) and confronts the office worker who denied his Hasbro application. Again, I did not spoil anything.

This line poised in the specific sequence of events leading up to Alejandro's confrontation is pivotal to one's early career development or otherwise. I perhaps sound ignorant given my privilege as a citizen and my career trajectory (albeit not an easy one), however, I encourage my peers and comrades to channel this level of assertion. The scene in which we witness the isometric boxes of Alejandro repeating the same tasks ad infinitum to portray a sense of folding within the constraints that are bestowed upon him give us, the viewer, a sense of defeat. In addition… this scene (cover photo) makes us feel like we are stuck with him. Resilience itself is an exhaustive effort, and sometimes, we just need to reinvent a fake wheel (grit) for a broken car (the system).

"Here is what's going to happen. You are going back to your desk and you are going to accept my application for my Cabbage Patch Doll proposal."