“When we celebrate the
vigilante on our screens, we tell ourselves it's because of our healthy
mistrust of corrupt structures, or because we're genuinely vulnerable -- not
because of our more shameful tendency to stereotype others based on fear or
hatred.
“….It's easy to
understand the enduring appeal of the vigilante archetype, whose hard-charging
moral certainty jibes perfectly with this country's sense of exceptionalism,
not to mention the narrative constraints of a 90-minute action movie. It's far
more difficult to reconcile complicated reality with the simplistic, comforting
fictions we crave.”
-- Ann Hornaday, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 15, 2012)
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