Star Time ★★★★ Quote:
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A confused misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. An agent promises to make him a TV star if he kills certain people, so he becomes “The Baby Mask Killer.”
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This is a strange serial killer film, one where the protagonist, Henry, is in frequent conversations with a mysterious agent, Sam Boone, to the point where you realise that his sanity should be questioned. Further conversations and interactions, which become distressing and violent in nature, lead you to question how much of these events are grounded in reality and how much is completely imaginary.
I'm not sure how much is designed to be a commentary on violence in the media or, like Martin Scorsese's King of Comedy, whether Cassini was exploring the danger of'what happens when someone develops an obsession with TV and the messages people are taking from television and other media. Either way, it's a really interesting film to watch and you can take from it what you want.