Hundreds of popular films have "average" or "normal" people going on some sort of spree. Hollywood favors the young lovers/criminals, movie stars as everyman (with glasses even!) and futile gestures against The Man.
The art house auteurs prefer dispassionate views of the monotony and indignities of the protagonist's everyday life as a slow build to the violence. Whether it is a German draftsman or an Iranian pizza delivery man or a mother in Brussels, we are left to sort out the social, political, psychological or cultural causes for the crash.
Why does Marcos run Amok? Battle in Heaven by Carlos Reygadas places itself firmly in the obscuritanist camp.
Rating: 5 out of 10
Recommended instead: For me, God's Lonely Man needs a little more personality.
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