watching FALLING DOWN and for now i’ll just say that if joel schumacher had a distinctive anything it was making very sweaty movies
thinking of doing a triple feature of this, DEATH WISH and the new bob odenkirk movie
it’s why i’m watching it! as maybe the definitive “white male rage” movie of the 1990s. i’m kind of interested in finding this equivalent movie for every decade since the 60s.
https://twitter.com/adamblickstein/status/1387943301811212288
shoutout to rachel ticotin, who had a great run of character roles in the early 1990s
this is a much smarter and self-aware movie than i realized going in
the movie all but screams that michael douglas is the villain in that his counterpart is robert duvall’s cranky but decent detective whose genuine commitment to service is contrasted with douglas’ entitlement and desire to dominate
duvall’s character basically exists to say “you can be an assertive and confident white man without dominating others, and that this in fact is more fulfilling than the alternative, represented by douglas”
talking with a friend about this movie and he has a whole other very persuasive take! i am totally going to watch this again at some point this year. it’s a rich text!
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