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Falling Down: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin. An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
- (210K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Joel Schumacher
- 1993-02-26
Detective Prendergast (Robert Duvall) of the LAPD is on his last day before taking an early retirement. He comes upon D-Fens's abandoned car on his way to work and helps push it out of traffic. Few years back his pushy wife made him take a safe desk job.
- A Man with No Name
- Liberator Or Bully?
- Falling Down and Trading Up
- The Ambiguity of Violence
- The Double
- Going Home
For most of Falling Down, Michael Douglas’s character doesn’t have a name – that’s how much the system has robbed him of dignity. Later we learn he’s lost his job despite years of service as a defence engineer. Then he calls ex-wife Elizabeth (Barbara Hershey) but can’t get any words out. Not only has she taken away his daughter and home, she’s sto...
For all the fancy words about nationhood and nostalgia, Bill’s attack on a Korean store owner is unbridled racism. That’s the significance of the smashed box of ornamental flags. Bill invokes “America” when it’s convenient to his prejudice, with little care for the responsibilities of patriotism. His breakdown isn’t due to a hot day or a crappy car...
Bill’s white-collar identity at the start of the film is a costume. He pretends to go to work every day in the same way that he pretends he’s still a family man. Underneath the artifice, he’s sweating – in fact, that’s how the film begins. Then he snaps, and begins trading up to ever more unstable identities. He steals a baseball bat, then swaps it...
If there’s any ambiguity to the character, motivations and responses of the man they call D-Fens, it’s at least partly steered by his being a white, middle-class man. Falling Down’s black / bleak comedy is a sardonic look at modern life. It’s fictional – yet the same scenarios play out every day in real life to quite different ends for those outsid...
Like the protagonists in Heat, Prendergast and D-Fens are doubles. They’re mirror reflections: similar and in sync, yet at the same time complete opposites. Here, both take heat from crappy colleagues and strangely distant wives, yet respond in very different ways. Prendergast – like Seven’s Detective Somerset– continues to fight for a flawed world...
At the start of the film Foster has lost his family, so his quest is to win them back. He even says repeatedly that he just wants to go home (though what he really means is a return to less complicated times and the nostalgia of the past) . Only Prendergast, his other half, knows this is impossible: men of Foster’s mindset are like bullets already ...
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Falling Down is a 1993 American psychological thriller film [3][4] directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Ebbe Roe Smith and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on February 26, 1993. [5] The film stars Michael Douglas as William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former defense engineer.
Robert Duvall. Barbara Hershey. Rachel Ticotin. Lois Smith. Plot – Los Angeles, summer of 1992. In the scorching heat of the city, Bill Foster is stucked in a terrible traffic jam. Suddenly he gets out of the car and decides to come back home walking for forty kilometers.
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Dec 7, 2000 · BBC - Films - review - Falling Down. It is rush hour in the heat of Los Angeles and a huge build up of traffic makes it necessary for 'D-Fens' (Michael Douglas, so named because of his car...
