SnakeDoctor
Super Freak
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Watched.
I heard somebody else compare it to Death Wish. The end ... maybe. But, the political assassination thing was closer to Hinkley than The Punisher. This wasn't really a revenge flick like Death Wish, or Man on Fire, or Harry Brown. It wasn't righteous rage ... he was delusional.
As I see it, he got progressively more delusional and psychotic ... and went on a killing spree. The targets just happened to be pimps -- because he met too much resistance when trying to kill a political candidate. You see "hero" ... I see a psycho that was too cowardly or incompetent to kill his real target.
SnakeDoc
Travis is experiancing pts as he returns to the world but he's still young and optimistic. Then of course we slowly see his slide into depression as he realises the world he was fighting for isn't what he thought it was. He falls back on his military training to kill time and build back up his body with the idea he needs to do something to make a differance but he doesn't know what. Then he realises his faith in government was misplaced and snaps and tries to assassinate the senator. After it fails he realises he can use his power to help sport instead. But yes he is still very dangerous. He is temporarily satisfied as the letter from her parents proves he did make a differance and his world brightens up a bit but he is still driving in the same city, still disconnected from people and likely to need an outlet again. I unlike Teddy, do see Travis as a hero, but a very flawed and tragic one, a victim of what he was made by the country he trusted when he was young and naive, he made the right choice ultimately doing something to help more then hurt once he's given that oppurtunity but at the same time he's obviously still dangerous. Closer to say Tim Burton's Batman who still kills people then Patrick Bateman imo but we see this movie in a much more realistic and less favorable light then a typical superhero movie. But if you see Hitgirl or Punisher as a hero, Travis isn't very differant, again just shown in a differant light and taken more seriously rather then having the fact that say your a 10 year old girl murdering people be a gimmicky joke. Ultimately Travis wants to kill the people he does because he feels it will make the world a better place, it's a pyschotic urge but I see it differantly than Patrick Bateman.
I heard somebody else compare it to Death Wish. The end ... maybe. But, the political assassination thing was closer to Hinkley than The Punisher. This wasn't really a revenge flick like Death Wish, or Man on Fire, or Harry Brown. It wasn't righteous rage ... he was delusional.
As I see it, he got progressively more delusional and psychotic ... and went on a killing spree. The targets just happened to be pimps -- because he met too much resistance when trying to kill a political candidate. You see "hero" ... I see a psycho that was too cowardly or incompetent to kill his real target.
SnakeDoc