vigilantism
Watchmen has hit a little under the halfway point, the pins are being set up and knocked down at the bat of an eye, and it just keeps getting more and more clever every week.
Like the novel that came before it, Watchmen elaborates on its characters’ futures vs their pasts in ways only the author can imagine.
Even as it skims too lightly over its complex themes, A Vigilante manages to capture a resilience and toughness that often goes unhailed on film.
While tiptoeing on the line of empowering and exploitative, Flower is an unconventional teen film for a new generation that finds its true strength in in its leading lady Zoey Deutch.
Death Wish is a victim of poor timing due to current public sentiment in regards to guns and violence, but its generic revenge story and wasted cast don’t much help matters either.
With strong performances and flawless filming, The Villainess briefly losses its identity before concluding with a stunning finish.
Often shrugged off as a base form of entertainment, the action genre has carved out its place in the cinematic phalanx. Spy capers, heist films or just a good old-fashioned shoot ‘em up have all become, in some why or another, a part of our lives in the form of witty one-liners such as ‘I’ll be back,” Detective John McClane saving Christmas (twice) and The Rock being— The Rock. Memorable moments which have become ingrained in our memories.
What is a vigilante? They often exist in settings where justice itself fails; police has become incapable of fighting crime, either because the perpetrator outwits them or because they have an extraterrestrial power that the police simply does not have the power to deal with. This is when the vigilante arises, a man or woman or a bunch of them, who takes justice in his, her or their own hand:
I had already previewed Prisoners a while ago, and was quite interested in seeing the movie. However, I didn’t have the chance until yesterday due to… life.