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| Jodie Foster plays the protagonist with a vigilante double life in Neil Jordan's The Brave One |
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When Bain and her boyfriend are beaten up at random under a tunnel in a park in New York, he dies from his injuries. She loses her sense of self and changes into another person. A person on a vendetta. First with self-defence, and later with acts of vigilante justice.
I enjoyed the suspense-elements of Bain's relationship to the police detective (Terrence Howard), who seems close to knowing her involvement in the deaths of city hoodlums, but quietly condones it. But it is the moral question of the right or wrong of committing vigilante justice that is the driving core of The Brave One. In that light, it is an inappropriate title for the film, unless it is meant as a compliment to the Bain-character for confronting her demons, which she does in the film. Inappropriate because it seems to have already decided that she is right.
The film is like a character study of the woman, and Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs (1991)) is the gutsy actress who can make it stick. The film has a neat visual expression and a sparse score by Dario Marianelli (V for Vendetta (2005)).
The director, Irish Neil Jordan (The Crying Game (1992)) has since The Brave One directed the Irish fisherman-story Ondine (2009) and the vampire flick Byzantium (2012) along with 6 episodes of the now canceled Vatican series, Borgias (2011-13).
Related review:
Terrence Howard: Prisoners (2013) or, A Father's Pursuit of Justice
Watch the official trailer here
Budget: 70 mil. $
Box office: 69.7 mil. $
= Way too expensive and a flop
What do you think of The Brave One?
Other good vigilante films?
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