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Posted at September 24, 2011, 3:44 pm:


Has anyone seen the belgian film C'est arrivé près de chez vous / Man Bites Dog (1992) by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde? The tagline of the film is: A Killer Comedy.

Here's a plot summary from imdb.com:

!!!SPOILER!!!

A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter.


First of all I want to say that I saw this film split up in several parts for different reasons, lack of time being one.

Anyway, I think this film is very before its time since it says a lot about in what direction tv and especially reality tv were going. We are almost there now; a camera crew actually following a man that is a killer for a living. The film is very funny, very much thanks to director and actor Benoît Poelvoorde who plays the killer, Ben. But at the same time your laughter get stuck in your throat because of the cold way in which Ben offs his victims - without any feelings or reflextions whatsoever. This, plus the documentary style makes it all very real. You don't really know what to do with it because it's horrible - but still so funny at the same time!

It would be interesting to know your thoughts on it...


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Interesting discussion guys.

Living in Belgium, I can relate to the satire and black humour Benoit ...

Yeah, polemic.

*bump* I enjoyed it.


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