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A vital 5th Generation job launched during the second stage of Deng Xiaoping's social as well as economic reforms, this durable social witticism fantastically depicts the clash in between the increasing class of rapid commercial modernizers and also old Celebration staffs with a serious Cultural Revolution hangover. The movie chronicles the Kafkaesque dilemma of a bumbling factory translator who is suspected of commercial reconnaissance after sending out an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title refers to the missing chess item the unlucky hero is trying to situate.) Positioned under investigation and also reassigned to a less sensitive department however never ever notified of the factor for his demotion, he applications to get his job back, stimulating a progressively obtuse and also amusing series of Party conferences, set in a boardroom right out of German Expressionism.