Review of The Young Poisoner's Handbook

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** one of the funniest movies i've ever seen, but funny in the same way that william burroughs thought that 'a clockwork orange' by anthony burgess was 'funny'. that is, so jaded and amoral that one can't help but drop all sentimentality and moral pretension and laugh one's behind off! our young anti hero is a chemistry major who decides to take vengeance on society (and his stepmother in particular) by unleashing his evil genius without worrying about those illusory trivialities, y'know, right and wrong. he is about as lovable as alex from 'clockwork' and i don't know if anyone cared when he killed himself at the end, but i sure didn't. this kid is a real nihilist, a nietzschean monster who takes delight in the suffering of others and who uses his abnormal and deviant intellect to satisfy his own power lust. there's something humorous about the scene where he arrives home and is nabbed by the cops; he looks with rage at the police officer who pounced on him and says something to the effect of, "that was the X-dose you f**king idiot, now you've ruined everything! everything!" he clearly has no sense of how just plain psycho he is, and in some depraved way his utter disregard for morality and other human beings is oddly hilarious. this is decidedly NOT a movie for sanctimonious or extramoral people, and if you're easily offended or disgusted by violence, don't touch it. but if you're like me and have a black-and postmodernist-humor thing goin on, don't rent it but BUY it!