Sunday, April 25, 2010

Le couperet (2005)

English title: The Ax.

A highly qualified engineer who lost his job and for more than two years has unsuccessfully tried to get a new one architects a plan to identify his competitors in the marketplace and kill them.

The plot has several implausibilities, but is sufficiently coherent to make possible a discussion of the consequences of the tyranny of financial capitalism over our society. It is not only a question of the inhumanity of the system, although this is the center of the film's concerns. But it argues further that replacing experts with inexpensive young professionals is bad for the companies, and in the long term for countries as well. These issues are not negligible, and the film is not without entertainment value.

Rating: 60

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