its wins included best film and best actor forjavier bardem, who i think is the main reason to see itl scales. he says his workers are his family. he treats them all like his family. the company is up for a business excellence award, and so what he needs is for the company to look good. however, his right—hand man is having marital crisis and his work is falling apart. one of the employees has been sacked and has now set up a protest camp outside the factory with banners demanding justice. meanwhile, javier bardem's character is doing what he appears to have done before, which is behaving in a very predatory manner towards a young intern. so it's described by the director as a tragi—comic tale of a worn—out labour ecosystem, and that is pretty much what it is. i mean, it's a corporate satire. it takes pretty kind of familiar pops at corporate capitalism. the whole fact that they make scales is a metaphor that is very heavily overworked. i mean, the scales of justice being tipped — they kind of tramp that into the ground a little bit. but bardem is great because he has that thing about

its wins included best film and best actor forjavier bardem, who i think is the main reason to see ithe treats them all like his family. the company is up for a business excellence award, and so what he needs is for the company to look good. however, his right—hand man is having marital crisis and his work is falling apart. one of the employees has been sacked and has now set up a protest camp outside the factory with banners demanding justice. meanwhile, javier bardem's character is doing what he appears to have done before, which is behaving in a very predatory manner towards a young intern. so it's described by the director as a tragi—comic tale of a worn—out labour ecosystem, and that is pretty much what it is. i mean, it's a corporate satire. it takes pretty kind of familiar pops at corporate capitalism. the whole fact that they make scales is a metaphor that is very heavily overworked. i mean, the scales of justice being tipped — they kind of tramp that into the ground a little bit. but bardem is great because he has that thing about smiling, patrician, "trust me," when undernea