Not a bungler at all.
Many viewers perceive “Office Romance” as a story about Cinderella. However, in fact, the film is much deeper than a simple parable about the love of two people from different worlds and that even misalliance brings happiness when real feelings intervene.
It is enough to pay attention to the props: it becomes clear that Lyudmila Prokofyevna and Novoseltsev are different only at first glance. For example, at Samokhvalov’s evening, it is clearly visible that Mymra and Anatoly Efremovich are birds of a feather, even though he is a simple employee, and she is a director with a Volga and a personal driver.
At this meeting, Novoseltsev reads Pasternak’s poems to Kalugina. These poems were then considered something of a password among a narrow circle of enlightened intelligentsia. Kalugina turns out to be completely enlightened.
And the very next day Mymra finds Novoseltsev’s personal file and finds out that he did not “walk in from the street” at all, but graduated from the Moscow Statistical Institute. He also read a very strange newspaper for office plankton. “Red Star” is still the choice of an active or retired military man. At the same time, Novoseltsev, judging by his approximate age, did not serve in the army and could not serve.
It turns out that his father served in the army. After all, he lives in an old house, in a former apartment building. Probably Novoseltsev is the son of a deceased officer, who yearns for his parent and has adopted his habits. All viewers remember the hero’s neatness, his pathological love of cleanliness and his neatly shaved mustache.
