I love how ideologically lucid it is, in contrast to other gritty New York vigilante films that always try to muddle the message (e.g., introducing the unique white pimp in Taxi Driver). She fights for all women, against all men.
It does not matter that the specific women are annoying liabilities like her neighbor or that they stab her in the back like her friend. It does not matter that some men did nothing wrong to her individually. The pattern…
An honest treatment of NYC's two and a half decades of descent into the abyss made at a time when the shock felt the sharpest. Homicides in NYC went from 550 to 1680 between 1963 to 1973. For comparison, the current murder wave since 2020 in cities like Chicago only saw the murders double. Such things should not be trivialised like "oh aren't those Americans panicky about urban decay". These changes are momentous and culture-defining.
Death Wish has no cheesy…
It's sad to see the film being compared to The Mission and the typical Hollywood movies. Also sad to see it subjected to the rage of the Canadian anticolonialist teens who watched it for some class and who keep repeating "white saviour" like drones.
Laforgue is bringing failure and doom. What kind of "saviour" is he, except in his own hopes? Everyone who trusts him ends up dead because of him, whether it's the chief and his entourage or the…
What an un-Hollywood movie. Feels like something out of late 80s USSR such as Visitor to a Museum or Dead Man's Letters. Great and unorthodox visuals, like a mixture of medieval Russia and Inuit art combined with abandoned polar bases. The mood is dogs eating a frozen corpse dressed in rags next to a gas lamp.
