Society as a person.

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2006)

The most enigmatic villain/ protagonist/ hero graces the screen and shocks us into amazement and revulsion. From the start, one feels as if one is watching a snuff film: the gritty, slarkly brutal beatings and the rape set to the tune that implied the joy of being in love creating a world that you thought you understood. Then one is taken into the home of what had thus far been painted as an untouchable and distant figure. Allowed to see inside the room and presumably the mind of this man, who, the viewer is shocked to see, still lives with his parents. Humanizing seems an incorrect word to use here when you consider that everything that Alex did and that we can assume that he would do is all inherently human, human nature being more akin to that of a beast than any of us would like to let on. We can all identify with Alex in one way or another, because Alex is the unbridled product of society set loose upon itself.