Better than I expected

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2006)

It's basic: we don't even recognize our own sociopathic, narcissistic superficiality.
I found the director's/writers' use of devices refreshing. Perhaps if we watched for them, we would view the film with a different set of eyes. For example, we see that no matter what this guy did, for all his affected excellence, he was always on the B list whereas his nemesis was always on the A list.
The writer of the book was a spoiled Beverly Hills brat who was probably not as good a writer as the connects his money bought. And though this was based on a Canadian killer, the models from which he drew were geeks. Maybe the writer saw this guy as a powerful guy but in the end most powerful guys are geeks. And really childish. I worked in Silicon Valley in the 80s, any of the guys I worked with could have been substituted in for any of these characters in the book/movie, and they were geeks. I worked with one of the writer's best friends, he was a royal geek. I think the characterizations made in the movie were dead on. No pun intended.