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ITT: Movies women will never understand
>Meanwhile, as D-Fens’ ex-wife, Beth, Barbara Hershey offers a startlingly realistic portrayal of an abused woman. Early on, she gives us every clue we’d need to know that D-Fens isn’t the hero: He doesn’t pay child support, she’s taken out a restraining order against him, and he won’t take no for an answer. Of course, not everyone reads those cues as I might. If you dare dwell for a few minutes on men’s rights activism (MRA) movie message boards, you’ll find that this film is seen by many as an “MRA anthem,” though some are conflicted because they’ve picked up on D-Fens really being the “baddie.”
>Falling Down offers a stark choice: Viewers can choose to ignore Beth’s warnings and get caught up in D-Fens’ Everyman crusade, or they can believe the woman. But Schumacher and Douglas make D-Fens so charismatic that it’s a given that Beth’s warnings will be ignored by many. In real life, sociopathic abusers often get passes, especially when they’re clean white men with charisma. Women, in this story, bear the brunt of D-Fens’ anger while acting as the Cassandras, trying to warn people — and the audience — who refuse to listen.
http://www.laweekly.com/film/falling-down-25th-anniversary-michael-douglas-was-the-villain-8164453
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She's right you know.
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>>82139252
WTF IS WRONG WITH HIS ARM?
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Fucking white men smdh
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>They lie to everyone! They lie to the fish!
D-Fens was just a symptom of a diseased system. The whole point of the movie was that any working stiff could end up like him.
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>>82139252
>Women, in this story, bear the brunt of D-Fens’ anger while acting as the Cassandras, trying to warn people — and the audience — who refuse to listen.
>get the shit beaten out of you buy your partner
>"aww sorry babe it'll never happen again I love you"
>get shit beaten out of you again
>"aww sorry babe"
>rinse and repeat
Why should I care, again?
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>>82139317
If you get too thin that's what it looks like when you extend it firm.
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>At the end of the film, D-Fens chases his daughter and ex-wife down the Venice Pier with a gun. Detective Prendergast, played by Robert Duvall, follows close behind, cautious. D-Fens is a dangerous man who’s already killed at least one person, but the cop doesn’t take out his weapon. If this had been real life, and had he been black, D-Fens likely would have been shot dead by police, but Schumacher gives us one last scene to try to understand who this man is, an olive branch of compassion that’s rarely afforded to nonwhite people.
Gas the liberals, ideology war now.
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>>82139317
Hyperextension. Good for olympic lifts.
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>>82139252
More like movies /pol/ babbies will never understand.
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>>82139372
>using hypothetical situations while not addressing the actual portrayal of black people in the story you're talking about
Film "critics," ladies and gentlemen.
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>>82139314
fpbp
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>>82139453
Do you know how much my country give to your country every year ?
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>>82139314
Stop reposting this 3DPD. Thanks.
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>>82139522
Is this better?
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>>82139372
>and he had been black
>implying cops don't kill white people all the time
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>>82139548
Much better. Thank you.
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Braveheart.
Women only think they understand freedom.
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>movie that came out almost 40 years ago about a guy who goes apeshit with a gun
>people are now trying to turn it into a big drama
who the fuck cares? seriously who gives a fuck
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>>82141306
>25 years
>Almost 40
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>>82139314
kys
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>>82141329
thought it was released in 83
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