I just looked up the ending, and I feel like someone had either seen Fight Club too many times or was just very sleep deprived.
I think your criticism here is something that applies to so many revenge movies. The idea that going on a murderous rampage will repair the damage is a deeply unhealthy one to take seriously. When Charles Bronson shoves a bad guy into a vat of acid in Death Wish 5, you cheer because it's the good guy doing it. When the bad guy shoots somebody, it's bad because he's bad and not our guy. It's often a very myopic viewpoint masquerading as gritty.
As a fan of old-school exploitation films, I feel like characters would go on some sort of revenge scheme because it was transgressive. Now, revenge has become a virtue in movies and other stories. I think it's a reflection of where we are as a society based on law enforcement, and how "justice" and "revenge" keep getting conflated.
I just looked up the ending, and I feel like someone had either seen Fight Club too many times or was just very sleep deprived.
I think your criticism here is something that applies to so many revenge movies. The idea that going on a murderous rampage will repair the damage is a deeply unhealthy one to take seriously. When Charles Bronson shoves a bad guy into a vat of acid in Death Wish 5, you cheer because it's the good guy doing it. When the bad guy shoots somebody, it's bad because he's bad and not our guy. It's often a very myopic viewpoint masquerading as gritty.
As a fan of old-school exploitation films, I feel like characters would go on some sort of revenge scheme because it was transgressive. Now, revenge has become a virtue in movies and other stories. I think it's a reflection of where we are as a society based on law enforcement, and how "justice" and "revenge" keep getting conflated.