Friday The 13th/World Egg Day/Train Your Brain Day/U.S. Navy Day
2006-10-13 @ 11:53 p.m.

It's a good thing I decided to watch Le Couperet instead of Les Revenants, since there's no way I could have made it for the latter because I went home from camp before meeting Thong. In any case, the cinema at The Cathay has very comfy seats! Le Couperet's really bizarre, like most of the French films I've seen, which make most of the stuff coming out of Hollywood look positively retarded. It's basically about Bruno, who's been retrenched and also happens to be intent on getting rid of everybody who stands between him and his dream job at a company called Arcadia. It actually opens with a sequence of flashbacks, narrated as a confession by Bruno before he blows his brains out. Fortunately for him, he falls asleep before he can do himself in. Just when you thought it was all going to end, it just got better. By then, he's already killed four out of five rivals, excluding the guy currently holding the job. So he sets out to finish the job, but instead discovers that the fifth guy's a total washout who doesn't need to be offed. To cut a long story short, Bruno eventually kills the guy holding the job, the fifth guy commits suicide and the police think he committed the four earlier murders, and Bruno gets his dream job. All this while helping his son to avoid jail for stealing software, undergoing marital counselling with his wife, and lying through his teeth to her about what he does when he goes for his "interviews". The deliciously ironic bit's at the very end. What happens is we see this woman looking at Bruno very murderously, and we are led to conclude that she's in precisely the same position that Bruno was not too long ago - plotting to off a guy to get his job. What's more, Bruno knows it too! So the film ends with them staring each other down, one of those quirky scenes that could only come out of a continental film. The point? Real people watch more than just Hollywood.