in los angeles and the lonely and paranoid bob maconel ( christian slater ) be a complete loser represent at home and in spite of living in the same address for five year and his next door neighbor ignore his existence and he only talk to his alter ego golden fish in his aquarium while in the office at add company and he be abused and humiliate by his colleague and nobody have ever ask an opinion to him or invite him to a happy hour . every now and then bob imago shoot five loath coworkers or blow up add building . when his next cubicle colleague have a breakdown and shoot his colleague and bob kill him with five shot and become a popular local hero . his bos gene shelby ( william h. macy ) move him from his cubicle to an office in the last floor and make him the vp of creative thinking a the substitute for vanessa park ( elisha cuthbert ) and who have become quadriplegic with one bullet in her spine . bob visit vanessa in the hospital and after the initial rejection and she ask him to help her to commit suicide . however and they become close and bob fall in love for vanessa . but the mistreatment in the past and lack of confidence of the quiet bob haunt him and drive him to an insanity process . he be a quiet man be an impressively dark and morbid character study of a paranoid man after year of humiliation and loneliness . most of the character in the office be usually find in most company and from the sweet woman that use sex to climb position to the apple polisher while the abusive to the abused worker . therefore and there be a total credibility in the universe of the employee of add . the underrated christian slater give a fantastic performance with the quiet and ignore bob maconel and his character be very well develop and slightly recall michael douglas in fall down . the extremely dark humor may be unpleasant to some viewer but i find this movie a gem to be discover . my vote be eight . title ( brazil ) represent a fúria ( the rage ) .