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Neil Davids

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Dec 15, 2003, 7:49:43 PM12/15/03
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Watched this last night and loved it.

Can't believe I'd never seen it before.

Charles Bronson is excellent.

Neil
(Melbourne. AUSTRALIA)


Richard

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Dec 16, 2003, 3:59:54 PM12/16/03
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Neil Davids <n_da...@spamaway.net.au> wrote in message news:<39bd30259d7897d8...@news.teranews.com>...

New York at the time was a horror show. Crime was absolutely appalling.
Central Park was the one place in the U.S. you could go at certain
times and be absolutely assurred of being attacked, robbed, etc.
Knowing this is central to understanding Kersey's motivations, aside from
the catalyst (the rape of his wife and daughter) that set him off.
That film, and Dirty Harry are the prime examples of films that cater
(rightly) to an audience's sense of helplessness in the face of terrible
amounts of crime. It's the reason that people cheered Kersey in the
theatre when he did the right thing and blew away Lawrence Hilton Jacobs,
later of "Welcome Back Cotter" fame.
-Rich

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