The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- vylmenon TMDB · Dec 20249/10
## Not about the guy This movie isn't about the main character, William 'D-Fens' Foster. He does some crazy things and I guess that what some people remember, but if you really watch the movie you see that it puts society's erosion of the U.S. "normal guy" on display. People who "do everything right": get a degree, marry, make babies, work for a corporation. They feel disillusioned, cheated out of the promise of the American dream. Class divides, racism, toxic masculinity, coroporate greed, urban decay, breakdown of interpersonal connections and flat, sloppy hamburgers that look nothing like the picture on the menu. They are all present in Joel Schumacher's chronicle of the late 80's and early 90's. Even the inaction of police under the strain of declining budgets. His ex-wife that dodged a bullet by getting out before D-Fens got violent, is almost ridiculed for being oversensitve, instead of rewarded for her insight and protective instincts. There are so many things we can see through D-Fens' interactions, but also his wife and the excellent portrail of Prendergast by Robert Duval. In essence, Falling Down is less about D-Fens as an individual and more about the society that shape
Read the whole review on TMDB - Robon TMDB · Aug 20155.5/10
Having just watched this movie I can say that I enjoyed it, not overly so. Its not really a tale of urban reality more that the everyday annoyances that we do nothing about and this guy turns them into a personal insult. Its starts normally enough, stuck in traffic, beep noises and drilling on a hot day, his AC is broken, the window is broken. Instead of just shrugging it off with that Monday feeling he just abandons his car and goes for a walk, to start with its a shop owner with overpriced drinks that gets his shop smashed up a bit, later only when threatened with violence himself does he defend himself against 2 gang members. This is where things start to suddenly go weird, the gang members drive round and stumble across him somehow, (I'm British but I think LA is a little too big for that) then spray bullets in a drive by 20ft away and miss him completely but hit everyone around him and then they promptly crash. He walks over to the car, collects a bag of guns from it then goes and shoots up a burger bar because they are not serving breakfast, which he then changes his mind to lunch anyway and it continues from there. I don't know if this was meant to show some sort of mental b
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Cast
- Michael DouglasD-Fens
- Robert DuvallPrendergast
- Barbara HersheyBeth
- Rachel TicotinSandra
- Tuesday WeldMrs. Prendergast
- Frederic ForrestSurplus Store Owner
- Lois SmithD-Fens' Mother
- Joey SingerAdele (Beth's Child)
- Ebbe Roe SmithGuy on Freeway
- Michael Paul ChanMr. Lee
Crew
- Joel SchumacherDirector
- Ebbe Roe SmithWriter
- Andrzej BartkowiakDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Paul HirschEditor
- Timothy HarrisProducer
- Arnold KopelsonProducer
- Herschel WeingrodProducer
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