"An office worker inadvertently becomes a hero after he saves a woman's life"(as
IMDB.com says) - but does he really save her? This movie is interesting, shocking and quite detailed into what it can described as character introspection (a view over the self-analysis of the character). It is also a movie about big companies ignoring their employees and the shallowness of the highly positioned people, who don't have any need or interest to get in touch with the real and detailed side.
The main character, Bob Maconel (played by Christian Slater), "was a quiet man", but think twice when you say "quiet", especially on the type that "keeps to himself" - "smooth waters run deep" - which goes to prove that "there's more (to a person in this case) than meets the eye".
Bob has a weird hobby, or better yet - let's call it an obsession - to play with a real gun, loaded with bullets, at work, behind his office. One day while he plays with his gun, one bullet slips down on the floor, but he sees there's no point in recovering it as a crazed co-worker comes in, with a gun and starts shooting the people around. Bob takes advantage of the fact that he had a gun and saves the day by shooting down the mad man. All is (relatively) well when he becomes a hero and he is rewarded by his superiors with a better job within the company. Soon he becomes the "boyfriend" of the lady he saved, Vanessa Parks (played by
Elisha Cuthbert). And all seems to be well for a while until he discovers some "unpleasant" things about Vanessa and his boss. He is very much affected when he is told that he is considered worthless and absolutely without value ("a woman like her would never be interested in a man like him") - and that leads to the climax when he goes into the very same office and ends the pain.
We live in a world where public image is very important and in many cases it can motivate the existence of a certain reputation of a person, even if it might not be true, while there is some grain of truth in it. The character played by Slater shows to the public what can happen in the mind of any disgruntled employee in any company. His element of "normality" is his love for Vanessa, and when she cannot tell him what she really feels about him, he goes "ballistic".
Vanessa portrays a shallow attractive woman who didn't even pay too much attention to him until she was immobilized by the unfortunate event. The twist is that we, the viewers, get mostly his point of view and not the other's and so, the characters in this movie might not be as they appear, but rather as Bob sees them. Even the actors said in the interview above that it was a bit difficult for them to impersonate characters who were totally opposed in thinking and behaviour to their own, so you will have to watch the movie and decide.
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