A Profound Work of Art

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2009)

When I saw this movie, I saw my boss in the protagonist. The line about "I am not even there", the deadpan, the utter ruthlessness. And a successful financial professional. Some commenters think he's just a symbol. I know he actually exists, just as depicted.
They don't all commit murder. Or maybe they all do. I wouldn't know. The best ones cover it up successfully. Those who know, don't find it in their interest to tell.
The ending is not ambiguous. It is clear from the paint and redecoration in the apartment, exactly where the corpses and body parts were, that it's being covered up. It's probably someone buying the place for cheap because of all the gruesomeness there, fixing it up with paint and carpet, then selling it for more money while forgetting to mention its past.
Therefore of course the people redecorating the apartment want our hero out. He's looking around carefully at the sensitive areas, maybe he knew something about the murders. It doesn't help them for him to be there.
The lawyer doesn't want to know all that stuff either. It doesn't help him to know it. He's the same sort of guy after all.
Nobody cares about the people who were killed. Nobody worries about whether this guy is a killer, because it doesn't help them, and maybe they too are killers. Life and the fight continue.
That's how it is in that world. It's the world I find myself in, and it is brilliantly, profoundly true to life.