Amoklauf
[3] Boll's third feature, it established a number of directorial trademarks that would recur throughout the filmmaker's career, such as a scene involving a mass shooting and a premise revolving around "psychologically disturbed men and intersecting systems of oppression conspiring to unleash the violent potential within them."[4] The film's unnamed protagonist flashes back to or fantasizes about murdering a female cyclist and is then shown pessimistically contemplating human nature while watching an episode of The Price Is Right.After observing a pair of yuppies vivisect a fish at the restaurant he works at as a waiter, the man returns to his barren apartment, where he further ponders humanity, this time while watching Mondo films.Shot on purposefully degraded 35 mm film, Amoklauf was personally financed by Boll with the 50,000 Deutsche Marks he had remaining in his business account after the dissolution of his partnership with Frank Lustig, whom he previously collaborated with on his earlier features, German Fried Movie and Barschel – Mord in Genf.Fearing Amoklauf could be his final film, Boll made it "as if I were saying goodbye" and thus gave it a melancholic tone, music that would "represent the end of a life" and a central theme discussing "the capabilities of what humans can do.