Satire.

The first few moments of this movie are terrific. The depiction of monotony and the drudgery of day-to-day life; the customary flip-off greeting, the guy who comes into work and puts a gun into his head every day, the obnoxious beep followed by the timer counting down the minutes at work, the catchy jingle of a chicken commercial telling you that life is okay as long as you eat what we tell you to eat. These are great observations on the human condition of how tedious and meaningless life has truly become. We are expected to have the perfect job, the perfect wife, the perfect home and that is supposed to make us happy. The idea of "exploding" is about as heavy-handed as you can get. But the idea wears thin real fast. By the half hour point, I already found myself squirming in my seat. It's a neat idea, but probably better suited to a short feature format.

Another work with a similar premise that I enjoyed recently (about a guy given a "perfect" life who wants more, has an affair, etc.) is the Norwegian film, The Bothersome Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808185/). It's been a month since I've seen it and I'm still thinking about it.