was looking forward to sherman's motion picture debut. that's cindy sherman, fine artist ©. enjoyed the stiff performances, cool feminist overtones, and laughably outdated laptops. the caricatured personalities with bad hair and drawn on eyebrows. i love all that stuff. it's great to see another american filmmaker join ranks with foreign cinema and purposefully, with oddball attitude and humor.
there are no glaring flaws. it just wasn't funny enough. also too short, and changed tone too abruptly to convince me otherwise. it starts backing out halfway through. definitively a well made movie, but it could've used a second draft. my premise was correct. office killer functions as an echo that would later become american psycho.
maybe if it was a musical?
'office killer' 1997
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excellent review! i didnt realize it was made in 97, was picturing her as the main character thirty years ago. are you referring to the feminist aspect of women directors when you mention american psycho? or is it more story related...
clearly mary harron, director of i shot andy warhol, knows of cindy sherman, perhaps even personally. so there's that. american psycho almost feels like the second draft of office killer with the gender roles reversed. there is still an office, except it's a corporation. the way harron gets around the tone shift is by making him a psychopath from the very beginning. it's only a matter of time. the feminism in american psycho is blatant because christian bale is a man, is so awful, and mostly kills women. actually in office killer she mostly kills women too...almost exclusively. so i guess you could say harron actually makes that function as (more) feminist, at least superficially. sherman's feminism is more hipster and video art related. like i said, cool. they both share a prediliction for outdated technology, like oversized cell phones from the 80's. something about office killer makes me think it could have been a super fantastic (actually good) sweeny todd, if you can see the comparison.
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