Societal Surrealist Comedy

Crisis and Punishment by Jean-Pierre Martinez: a biting satirical comedy about the banking world, seen through the misadventures of James Carpenter, an unemployed actor sent by the Job Centre to work in a major financial institution on the brink of collapse. Assigned to the enigmatic “Customer Support Department”, he soon discovers the true nature of the job: serving as a physical scapegoat for ruined clients, a human punching bag who must hold the bank’s symbolic guilt. Slapped, insulted, hit, threatened at gunpoint, and eventually mythologised, James becomes the official martyr of a system in free fall.