Review of Man Bites Dog (1992) by Jeff N — 13 Feb 2010

Original. I see a few a comparisons to A Clockwork Orange and indeed that movie comes to mind. They're quite different but share enough commonalities. Clockwork is one of my all time favourite films and in time this might become one as well.

It's brutal and humourous with its own moments of tenderness and beauty. In some ways we'd all like to be like the protagonist in that he does what he pleases and has no moral conscious about it. Sure he'd rather not kill children but sometimes it can't be avoided. He is a lonely and sad man although he has a loving family and it seems some friends and notoriety away from the camera crew. With what would appear a normal life what has turned this man to become a relentless killing machine. It isn't for money alone even though he knows who to hit that has money. He calls what he does hard work and I'm sure it is, one would think just avoiding the police would be a full time job but this killer is very smart. He kills randomly ( although he does like to start the month with a mailman :P ) and does it also quite openly as well. I was once told the best way not to get caught is to do it in the open. Our protagonist does this, even with the camera crew filming so much damning evidence against the man he doesn't seem to consider that really.

Quite funny, violent and entertaining. I didn't quite understand the boxing match really but perhaps I need to see it again.