amily man Bruno has been laid off from his job with a paper company after 15 years faithful service, a victim of profit-motivated ‘efficiency' cuts. Watching a promo video for another company, he's convinced he could do a much better job than the boss, if only there was a vacancy. Still unemployed after two years, as money gets tighter and his patriarchal pride takes a battering, Bruno decides to act. In his determination to regain his rightful place in the paper manufacturing industry, he realises that should an appropriate job become available he'd have a far better chance if he could eliminate the other leading candidates. Literally.
Directed by Costa Gavras (Amen), Jose Garcia displays flawless comic timing in his nuanced performance as Bruno, a man driven to desperate acts by heartless social circumstances.
职场杀手的短评
让人想起伊林黑色喜剧经典仁心与冠冕。加夫拉斯照搬逐一清除竞争候选的奇思,然后把背景从英伦传统显赫家族继承权改为现代都市造纸业的求职难,期间穿插了对资本主义生产关系的讽刺,“过去日本人只是将老人放进荒山,而今天我们竟然让年富力强的劳动力下岗回家无事可做!”……可信息是传递出去了,故事却没能跟上。当喜剧看缺乏风格修饰,当正剧看又过于荒诞随意不可信。 —— 赱馬觀♣
一个把人逼疯的金钱社会,衣冠楚楚的中产阶级为生计变身为连环杀人狂。全球化机械化所带来的失业危机,引爆人性中偏执而癫狂的因子,主角失措观众捧腹中有社会观察,不失为一出态度严肃的社会问题犯罪喜剧,不知彭浩翔的《维多利亚一号》有无受此片影响? —— 喻鸣
男主角把他那把老式的,后坐力超强的手枪藏在一个塑料带里;来到湖边,四处张望看见没人,于是迅速把赃物扔进了湖里;不巧湖上一个撑木排的人正巧经过,差点就仍木排上了! 于是两个人都呆呆的看着那个袋子沉入湖底!哈哈 这一幕看时非常好笑阿 —— x
加夫拉斯真的是个喜剧天才啊。这片贱兮兮的程度堪比[赛末点]和[卡桑德拉之梦]了。喜剧+惊悚这样的调性确实很难拿捏,剧作实在是老辣。结尾(还翻了中间面试那个梗)生生拉上来一颗星。欠一点做成数据库叙事的自觉(虽说事实上算是个数据库),否则真的可以送五星了。 —— 胤祥
第二次看了,依然好看 LE_COUPERET.Blu-ray.DTS-HD MA.5.1.2004.JK 9.35 —— 南团