I have
never been a huge fan of Charles Bronson. Not for any reason other
than the fact that I have not seen too many of his movies. I've seen
maybe five of them out of the dozens and dozens he has made. Today I
decided to watch Death Wish. This was made in 1974 which makes for
fun scenes like a cop having to run for blocks to find a pay phone
that works. This movie also had a young Denzel Washington and Jeff Goldblum.
Bronson
stars as Paul Kersey. He is a normal guy with a nice normal family
until one day his wife is followed home by Goldblum and his friends
who attack and rape(?) his wife and daughter. The wife is beaten up
and I know if this was made today it'd be way more brutal. Kersey and
his son-in-law arrive at the hospital and he finds out that his wife
died and his daughter is mentally fucked because of what happened.
After a trip for work he is given a gun as a gift and as soon as he
gets back home his kill switch is engaged.
This
was a cool movie and showed how vengeance can backfire and you can
start to become just as bad as the people you are hunting. That Jodie Foster movie The Brave One copied so much from this movie but wasn't
close to as good. In this he proactively looked for bad guys and made
himself a target. In the latter she just happened to have the worst
luck ever.
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