Tonight's offering: Death Wish (1974)
After Paul Kersey's wife is killed and his daughter is raped, he decides to become a one-man vigilante squad.
I've heard it said that a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. And that is appropriate for the main character in this action movie set in New York of the 1970's when things were spinning out of control. Though the movie spawned a series of increasingly-silly sequels (and at least one remake which I refuse to acknowledge*), this is the one to watch.
As an aside, I note that ten years later New York experienced the case of Bernhard Goetz. Like the fictional Paul Kersey, Goetz went into the subway making himself appear vulnerable in order to tempt would be thieves. His shooting of four men became a high profile case. Goetz was often compared to Kersey.
*Oops. Does that count as acknowledgement?
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