>I'm the Bad Guy? How'd that happen? I did everything they told me to...
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Did this scene resonate with anyone else? Such a great movie.
>I'm the Bad Guy? How'd that happen? I did everything they told me to...
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Did this scene resonate with anyone else? Such a great movie.
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bad movie
just watch Targets or Taxi Driver or La Haine
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>trashes a small store
>blows up a construction site
>threatens innocent people in the fast food place
>threatens a family
>threatens his wife
The guy is a fucking loser, and his half-realized rage causes more damage than anything that happens to him
Yes, he's the bad guy. Lashing out and blaming it on other people
>La Haine
I've seen it and it's good but it isn't very similar.
>Taxi Driver
This is the superior film to deal with similar themes, I agree, but that doesn't mean Falling Down is bad.
>Targets
Never heard of it but sounds interesting, thanks will try to check it out.
He's a tragic hero of sorts, that doesn't make him "bad."
>a tragic hero
He's an asshole, no better than the gang bangers. Thinks violence will solve all his problems, and of course it's everybody else's fault.
are you me
>He's an asshole
He's an asshole because he's trying to live up to his idea of what society expects of him, but he doesn't know how to do that organically so he forces it artificially. You see that with the home movies he watches, where he's trying to be the "model," ideal father but nothing goes right and he doesn't know how to react when things don't go as planned. So he lashes out in response. It's a pretty good character study of frustrated expectations and imagined obligations and what that does to one's psyche.
He also is just one manifestation of that in the film, there are at least two others that take a non-violent position to being frustrated in their life goals (Prendergast and the "Not Economically Viable" Guy). Notice that the NEV Guy is wearing the exact same outfit as DFENS, and yet he isn't shooting up fast food restaurants. The film is more intelligent than you give it credit.
Is Targets the Peter bognodov movie?