The Apartment is a humorous, interesting and at moments
depressing film about a young man (Jack Lemmon) climbing his way
up the corporate ladder by letting executives at his company carry
on extramarital affairs at his brownstone apartment. Lemmon plays
a character most people can relate to, struggling with a situation
where his career is advancing, but for the wrong reasons. When
he tries to put a stop to it, things backfire.
Directed by Billy Wilder, The Apartment also stars Fred
MacMurray and Shirley MacLaine, as the top executive and Lemmon's
love interest. It is a movie that carries itself as a comedy at
times, but also demonstrates the harsh realities of situations
which we laugh at early on. It manages to make us sympathetic
towards the three main characters, who, all things considered,
deserve very little.
The Apartment has been praised by audiences and critics
alike for over forty years now, and I think it is a movie everyone
needs to see. Do yourself a favor and find a copy.
