From the guy behind Thriller: A Cruel Picture - a favorite of Quentin Tarantino and legions of cult film fans - comes this oddball of a picture about an office nerd who lives a double life.
Bob (Andreas Bellis) is a nebbish office worker, akin to Milton in
Office Space. One day he watches the news on the office TV set and sees a psychiatric expert explaining that "women should not resist being sexually assaulted, as that is what most predators want, and that 89% of surveyed women admitted to wanting to be raped at least once in their lives." WTF?
One of his fellow workers, Anne, drops off an office supply and proceeds to feel her breast. Is she really doing this to taunt him, or is this in Bob's imagination?
Bob takes leave from work to go for a subway ride. We quickly get the sense that ol' Bob isn't quite right in the head.
He spies a beautiful woman riding the train (Barbara Scott).
He follows her home and makes her get naked and give him a blow job. The scene is clearly not simulated - actress Barbara Scott is doing it for real. What's not clear is whether this is really happening or whether it's all in Bob's sick head.
Back at work, Anne is again teasing him.
Bob follows another girl who's out shopping.
Once again, he makes her strip and give him a BJ.
Another thing that's not clear is whether this is a rape. The sex scene is portrayed as if the woman wants it. (This movie is severely f***ed.)
One of the films more memorable moments: Bob jacks off into a Styrofoam cup, pours coffee into it, and offers it to Anne - and she drinks it!
Bob basically abducts a little girl from school and takes her into the middle of the woods and eats candy with her. Thankfully, things don't go farther than this, and he drops her off safely back home.
Bob picks up a hitchhiker who instantly gets naked. A taste of the dialog:
Bob: Have you ever fucked before?
Hitchhiker: When I screw them, they stay screwed.
The girl then does a number on the rental car's stick shift. When Bob returns the car, we find that he kept the stick shift as a memento. (Note than none of the girls in this film, other than Barbara Scott, are identified in the credits or IMDb.)
Bob gets into a gun battle with some robbers, which escalates to firing upon a helicopter. This is where it becomes clear (at least to me) that all this is in Bob's mind.
The final scene has Bob picking up his lovely wife from the train station. The punchline:
Wife: How have things been?
Bob: You know nothing ever happens in this shit town.
No thanks. I can somewhat respect the "is this real or in his head" aspect - a la Fight Club or American Psycho. Otherwise, it just doesn't hold much interest. Bob listlessly moves from one sexual encounter to the next, with little to no dialog or inner monologue. Writer/Director Bo Arne Vibenius inserts hardcore sex into the film, but it's all so gritty and disturbing that it's impossible to enjoy.
★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
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