On the surface he seems almost normal, and it is easy to forget that he's a homicidal maniac. And that's the movie's genius. Like the camera crew you get sucked into Ben's strange world, and come to accept the muggings, robberies and murders as part of it. The mundane way in which the crimes are presented can be both surreal and funny, and the interludes of normality only serve to heighten this sense of unreality. Although it is shocking at first, you soon become numbed to the almost constant violence, and it's only as the camera crew become involved in Benoit's crimes and the violence gets ever more brutal that you are shaken out of the trance and the tension starts to mount.
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Certainly the DVD and movie reviews on the DeadAlfs site have gone down well with the visitors in the past. Gathering by the amount of DVD cases I saw strewn around at i6, DVDs are very much part of a gamer's make-up nowadays. Watched Fight Club on DVD last night. Rather cool stuff. I wasn't suggesting that Man Bites Dog was influenced by those movies, it was just a blurb to give people a rough idea of what to expect in the review.