Have you ever seen the movie "Funny Games"? It might be my least favorite movie of all time: pointless brutality, and nothing more, presented as entertainment, as home invaders torture and kill a family. I eventually learned that the filmmaker was pointedly trying to make a movie that no reasonable person would sit through the length of.
Well, this does that one better, by dispensing with the highbrow artistic morality play of exposing the viewer as complicit in violence-as-entertainment—and substituting, instead, a brief coda explaining "the got him to do it."
A houseguest at a friend's dinner get-together spots a computer in an empty room and an anonymous person chats with him, knows all his secrets, and in a matter of minutes convinces him to "become like God" by torturing, raping, and killing his friends. So he does. Along with, delightfully, their 12 year old daughter, after hitting on her.
And that's the movie.
Except for in a final scene at the very end in which you find out it was the Devil, who then tricks him into killing himself. Roll credits.
What a load of bullshit.
Oh, wait, I forgot, in the middle, the bloodbath pauses for a minute for the killer and one of his victims to philosophize about whether might makes right, in the best style of stoned college sophomores on a saturday night. "Why are you quoting Steve Jobs? Everyone knows he was an asshole." "He was very successful." "Hitler was very successful." MIND.BLOWN.
This is the technically best made film I've ever thought was 100% unredeemably useless garbage. Except, perhaps, for "Funny Games". Maybe.
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