The Ax

The Ax
  • Release date: 2 Mar 2005
  • Release year: 2005
  • Runtime: 117 minutes
  • Country: France, Belgium, Spain
  • Keywords: employment recruiter, immoral ending, dark comedy, job, arcadia, competition, outsourcing, contestant elimination, unemployment, son in jail
Plot:
The thirty-nine years old executive Bruno Davert has been working for fifteen years in a paper company. After a merging operation with a Romania's company, he is fired in a downsizing. While unemployed for two years, Bruno loses his self-esteem and sanity and his family loses the middle-class lifestyle without cable television, Internet and regular consumption. He concludes that there is too much competition in his sector for a few job positions and decides to literally eliminate his competitors, killing those more qualified than him.
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