I Stand Alone

Noé punctuates his nihilistic narrative—about an enraged, misogynistic, racist and generally vile ex-butcher—with a loud unexplained gunshot, accompanied by a frantic and almost impossibly violent lurch on the part of the camera. It’s an arresting, memorable tension tool—far more arresting or memorable, really, than the movie itself, which is heavily indebted to Taxi Driver.