Man Bites Dog would have to fall under the category of the antithesis of Hollywood movies.
If you can purge the shocking undiluted violence and put enough comfortable distance between yourself and the show then viewing the film with a critical eye isn't hard at all.
That is, if you can do it.
Because Man Bites Dog is as harsh as reality comes, displaying the warped sense of what counts for normalcy for different people and weaving in underlying messages of where we are heading with the genre of reality TV.
The black and white footage, perhaps done to spare us gruesome details of massacre, effective does the complete opposite. Whatever immunity you have towards those Hollywood slash-fics will be speedily thrown out of the window within the first 10 minutes of the show.
It's not glamourised and in doing so, you actually start to believe what lengths people are capable of in the "Real" world.
So, if you look at it from the point of view that it bulldozes the message across... 'don't get in too deep before you start to realise you can't get out'... then with all surety, it is great enough a movie to shock viewers right into common sense.
However, it's not something I would recommend for anything beyond critique circles or research unless you find scrubbing your brain out with carbolic soap as a fun post-movie experience.
If you can purge the shocking undiluted violence and put enough comfortable distance between yourself and the show then viewing the film with a critical eye isn't hard at all.
That is, if you can do it.
Because Man Bites Dog is as harsh as reality comes, displaying the warped sense of what counts for normalcy for different people and weaving in underlying messages of where we are heading with the genre of reality TV.
The black and white footage, perhaps done to spare us gruesome details of massacre, effective does the complete opposite. Whatever immunity you have towards those Hollywood slash-fics will be speedily thrown out of the window within the first 10 minutes of the show.
It's not glamourised and in doing so, you actually start to believe what lengths people are capable of in the "Real" world.
So, if you look at it from the point of view that it bulldozes the message across... 'don't get in too deep before you start to realise you can't get out'... then with all surety, it is great enough a movie to shock viewers right into common sense.
However, it's not something I would recommend for anything beyond critique circles or research unless you find scrubbing your brain out with carbolic soap as a fun post-movie experience.