A movie about insanity, an inner personal conflicts at heart

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2000)

Yes, you heard me right. The violence vs. consumer culture is only a sub-theme in this movie. If you dig a little deeper, you will find that this movie is really about insanity. It is one the first movies to take us inside the mind of a madman. And it shows up an internal battle between the free "do what I feel like when I feel like it" macho guy and the scared moral materialistic vulnerable guy. The free and the restrained. Both are towards the extremes. This race toward the edge destroys the world or the world as the main character sees it. It destroys his reality. I think this movie is really about what is called "the middle path" by Buddists. It's a very creative and visually mind blowing way of portraying it.