I'm assuming from the trailer it's going to be less Falling Down and more Parallax View (but not in a good way). And that it will be anti-MRA in tone. I'm not a fan of Brody or Eisenberg. But I'll take one for the team if no one else has seen it.
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Falling Down isn't nearly as based is it is depicted. The only person he kills is a "nazi", the way the "nazi" is characterized as a villain is by talking bad about homos. He indirectly kills the guy at the golf course who is depicted as unsympathetic because he is rich and white. DFENS first incident is a tantrum in a convenience store ranting about prices. Another was in the fast food place because he was mad the rules applied to him and advertising puffery.
The whole thing is an anti-civilizational tirade from a marxist viewpoint also with an anti-male message where the man is useless unless he is toiling for a corporation and the only way he can be heroic is to sacrifice himself for the wife who divorced him.
It's about society using you, then crushing you when it can no longer use you. Dfens is a sympathetic figure people can identify with, an anti-hero for standing against that society. He killed the Nazi shop owner in self defense. The Nazi wanted someone who was lockstep in his opinions, the same kind of purity testing you're applying here by saying Falling Down isn't "based" enough for you, so you reject it entirely.
I reject the marxist/romantic framing that "society" owes individuals anything and that if an individual doesn't like his position in life this is somehow "society's" responsibility. And that this imagined "oppression" is a reasonable justification for anti-social behavior targeted against people who are fundamentally just as powerless to do anything as the "victim".
Society owes people nothing, except relative non-interference. Society is failing us all greatly on that count currently. It's not Marxist/leftist to call it out...although they are the ones calling it out more often, I'll admit. Because they're whiners.
I never said it was society's responsibility to provide anything. Society also shouldn't actively shit on you either, when you're just trying to go about your business. When it does, can you blame someone for falling down?
It all started when he just wanted to sit down and rest, and a couple of of thugs decided he couldn't. All they had to do was leave him alone, but they couldn't do that.