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A crucial 5th Generation work launched during the 2nd phase of Deng Xiaoping's social and also economic reforms, this durable social satire wonderfully portrays the clash between the rising course of fast industrial modernizers as well as old Event cadres with a major Cultural Revolution hangover. The movie narrates the Kafkaesque dilemma of a bumbling manufacturing facility translator that is believed of commercial reconnaissance after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title refers to the missing out on chess piece the hapless hero is trying to situate.) Placed under investigation and also reassigned to a less delicate department but never educated of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to obtain his task back, triggering a progressively obtuse and humorous collection of Party meetings, set in a conference room right out of German Expressionism.