(M) I Stand Alone (Gasper Noe)
Grade: C

This film by controversial film director Gasper Noe follows around a man who feels nothing goes right for him in life. After a quick story of the lead characters past we are brought into his present situation in life. He's lost his business, gone to jail for a mis-understanding, and impregnated his girlfriend (or wife). With no college education and only skilled as a butcher he heads out into the city to find a job. Sadly, the current state of employment is not doing to well.

Most of this movie is voice-over (internal dialogue). You listen to the man's thoughts as he begins to feel a sense of hopelessness and loss of hope in man, society, and humanity. He goes on further and further into despair and feeling like he and everyone in the world is trully alone in society and that morality is what you make it to be. Eventually the character seems to create a sense of hope or reason to live but sadly it's a depraved twisted conclusion he's come to. However, it's quite possibly the only thing that keeps him from killing anyone who pisses him off or even killing himself to avoid the pain of life.

The film was done well. I gave it a low grade only because it was a sad story that I didn't need to see right now.