Review of Kontroll (2003) by Jeremy W — 23 Nov 2013

If you haven't seen the movie yet don't read my review, yet. (I don't want to give anything away because I enjoyed it without reading anything beforehand). My impression was that Bulcsu was the person who was committing all the murders and the dark shadowy figure was his conscience.

Since he spends so much time in the system he knows where all the cameras are, and his boss points that out to him, some people think that the boss is the pusher and he accuses Bulcsu to eliminate himself as a suspect.

After Bulcsu meets Sofie he's smitten with her and then she supposedly awakens him and says she wants to show him something, but that is a just a dream, it's his subconscious telling him that she suspects he's the pusher, and that's why she wants to "show him something" meaning she knows.

I think that the other agent who he races with through the tunnel also suspects Bulcsu and is hoping that Bulcsu dies during the race. No one else is able to see the dark shadowy figure, at least no one interacts with him and notice how after Bootsie is pushed in front of the train, Bulcsu closes his eyes and the dark figure passes right by him, and subsequently his boss shows him the tape and states that there was no one else on the tape except for Bulcsu, so he must be the pusher.

I think the supposed fight near the end between Bulcsu and the shadowy figure is just him wrestling with his conscience and he decides that he either has to kill himself or get out of the system and quit his job, and then Sofie shows up either looking like a butterfly or an angel and takes him out of the subway which is his own personal hell, and takes him back to earth, in other word she's a type of guardian angel.