Billing (Anton Rothschild) seems to be the perfectly boring specimen of
humankind: He has a boring office job, is not exactly friends with his
colleagues, daydreams about a coworker undressing in front of him, and at
home he loves nothing better than to play with his toy train. But there
also is a darker side to him, as he goes around raping women and sometimes
killing them - and the television that claims to trail him with the rest
of the population is actually helping him by repeating the message over
and over that women are supposed to just let it happen when someone tries
to rape them. Only one of the women shows resistance trying to stab him,
but Billing later forces her into a car accident in which she dies. Eventually,
Billing meets a woman of his taste, a sexually outgoing hitchhiker who
freely offers all kinds of sexual favours, and ultimately not only fucks
him but also his rental car's gearshift's head - which he decides to keep
thereafter. One day, Billing becomes the hostage of a trio of
bankrobbers, but somehow he manages to shoot them all dead, and with the
robbers' machinegun he also shoots the police helicopter right out of the
sky, and manages to make good his getaway, too. Of course, all of these
stories sound so wild they might not be real, least of all for a boring
office clerk of Billing's ilk ... but then the ending turns everything
topsy turvy when he pulls the above-mentioned gearshift-head out of his
pocket and sniffs on it, just before he picks up his wife and child (who
weren't previously mentioned) from the airport. First of all,
this film is hardcore porn, and it's not inserts featuring other actors
either (like in Bo Arne Vibenius' more famous Thriller
- A Cruel Picture) - nope, it was filmed that way and is proud
about it. That said though, Breaking Point is not just a disposable
piece of pornography, it actually features an interesting and very
disturbing story, and a grim insight into its protagonist's troubled mind.
Plus, an accomplished directorial effort make this one more than a mere
meat movie. That all said, Breaking Point is far from perfect, and
it certainly doesn't pack the same kind of punch as Thriller
- A Cruel Picture either, but it's a weird excursion into the mind
of a psychopath that at least deserves more attention than it gets these
days.
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