The visual style of this rarely seen film looks old-fashioned at first sight; but actually this is what sophisticated movies looked like in these days. They may be dated in terms in technical terms, but they are certainly not regarding their content
In this film, the member of the board of a big company (IME, it's logo strongly resembling IBM), quiet a quiet man, gets fired. He then kills his fellow executives, then dictating to his secretary a testimony in which he claims to put off "computer programs", not people. Moreover, to police he claims to be a machine himself. Is he mad or is there something else? Enter Swiss journalist René Winterhalter (Michel Piccoli), whose first approach is to call the killer of "victim of ideology". Sound promising? Unfortunately from that point, the film leads virtually into nowhere. Winterhalter finds out about the company's illegal chemical contaminations, escapes an assassination attempt in a hilarious manner, and just when you thought things might be cleared up now, the credits roll. The last part of the film is incredibly unspectacular when compared to the opening, and offers almost no solution. Maybe the director was aiming at an entirely "different" ending; in that purpose he succeeded, but that does not serve the premises the film set in the first place.
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