Unsuccessful mix of comedy and drama.
16 January 2007
Warning: Spoilers
A young and intelligent degenerate poisons everyone in sight. The film works well as an interesting oddity, but fails completely as a (black) comedy; there is absolutely nothing funny about people getting poisoned and dying in extreme agony, especially since this is supposedly based on a true story. It would be funny if it were an all-out absurdist horror in the Peter Jackson vein, but it isn't. If I hadn't read that it was suppose to be comedic and if the film hadn't been promoted in its trailers as black comedy I would have never guessed that it was intended as such.

There are also obvious references to "A Clockwork Orange", starting with its main theme (melody) which is used here several times. There are other - probably quite conscious - similarities to this film: the psychiatrist that wants to "cure" him; the two-year period that passes from capture to starting "recovery"; the attracting of attention to himself when the psychiatrist passes by the inmates; the question of whether a psychopathic freak can be cured or not (though not a main theme here), etc.
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