Handsome, but often sullen and socially awkward, Armin is a recent university graduate listlessly carrying out his loving yet overbearing parents' regimen of "a job application a day." Unsure of his identity and tormented by his parents' pressure to live up to his successful older brothers, Armin begins to break up the tedium of his existence with minor transgressions like writing pornographic graffiti on a public bathroom wall and walking home on the autobahn. After coming across the fatal car accident of a bank president on one such walk, he picks up a broken axle from the scene and writes an anonymous confession of sabotage to a newspaper, the first in a series of dangerously escalating attempts (another which includes tearoom sex with motorcyclists) to escape from his bourgeois malaise. Director Search results Christoph Hochhusler succinctly captures the inanity of the job interviewing process as well as the airlessness of Armin's home life with low-key dark humor. Low Profile's elliptical structure provocatively leaves Armin's criminal and sexual fantasies open to interpretation, and the film's startling ending will force you to reconsider what you've just seen.
