"If you kill a whale, you get Greenpeace and Jacques Cousteau on your back, but wipe out sardines and you get a canning subsidy"
Man Bites Dog was it. The filmmakers we're all charged with murder. This film is less about violence and more about it's moral container.
The jokes that hit the mark are hilarious, and that is almost entirely because of Poelvoorde, but the overall tone felt irregular and downright meandering in the second half, for its rather slim 90 minutes I would have wished a bit more work in the script, but do these people even use one?
I remember being at a midnight showing for this at TIFF in 92. The crowd laughed and cheered for the first half until that scene where the camera crew joined in. Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop. People were shell shocked coming out. Doesn't have quite the same power now but back in 92 wow!!!
Amazing premise for a movie... And I think that's all good things I can say about it. Repetitive, boring and tedious. It makes you believe it's building something, but that feeling leaves you early to realize that it only repeats itself endlessly making me wonder why so many people told me so many things about this movie before watching it. Is this really such a great movie? I seriously doubt it.
It's effective in the first half due to Poelvoorde's tour de force and the sick humour based on the lack of morals. But after a while becomes repetitive, and doesn't go any further neither in the violence discourse nor in the psychopatology of the character. At the end, he's a nice guy on the surface who kills a lot of people, and that's all.
loved it. Benoit is probably the nightmarish killer I'd most want to hang out with after Kakihara from Ichi the Killer. super fucked up and often hilarious.
I thought it was too funny to have any gravity whenever you needed to take something seriously and not quite vicious enough to effectively convey its point. That said, I'd recommend it based on the acting alone-Benoit is a character for the ages.
hilarious, some of the finest black humour you can find in films. and i always was wondering how and whether fly-on-the-wall documentary-making is possible, whether it remains objective, unobtrusive and not influencing the subject/s of filming. i love how in this film the crew gets involved.
It was hilarious, circular and enjoyably Cinema Verité, but I had ethical problems with the "rape transforming into a disembowelment scene". they where trying to pose some ethical question, but I have no idea what it was and If i can't figure that out then they posed it in the wrong way.
Una violenta comedia negra, una especie de mezcla de Tarantino con Hanecke, bajo la optica de falso documental tipo la bruja de blair. Politicamente incorrecta, hoy resulta bastante divertida, aunque en su tiempo levanto ampula porque hubo bastantes pendejos que se la tomaron en serio, o se espantaron copn su ideologia valemadrista.
While the media does have the scruples of a terrorist, it has never reached this level of bad reporting/low entertainment. Even so, it's a fresh movie, and the calculated outrage, consciously or unconsciously, looked ahead. Spartacus: Blood and Sand, anyone?
Cinéma! CINÉMAAAA!!!! How à propos. Is it OK to say this is a fun movie? This is a fun movie.
Black comedy that really made its point. Outstandingly horrid, hilarious!
