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The Brave One (Widescreen Edition)
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	List Price: $28.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $8.99 *Features* • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 14 September, 2007 DVD Release : 05 February, 2008
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Neil Jordan's somber The Brave One is a lot of things. A reflective movie about a crime victim's sense of dislocation and isolation from her own life following a harrowing trauma, the film will strike a chord with a lot of people who have known violence. The Brave One is also a provocative drama about the nature of justice, a theme explored endlessly in American movies that typically find law enforcement wanting. In Jordan's film, however, the conflict between instinctive vigilantism and legal protocols is approached with more deliberateness and complexity than usual. Finally, despite its seriousness of purpose, The Brave One, to a certain extent, is drearily tethered to the old atrocity-and-revenge genre, bumping along to the familiar, Death Wish-like rhythms of an avenger seeking successive conflicts with bad guys he or she can blow away.

Somewhat at cross-purposes, The Brave One stars Jodie Foster in a shattering performance as Erica Bain, a popular essayist on a public radio station in New York. In love and engaged to David (Naveen Andrews), a doctor, Erica and her fiancé are brutally attacked one night by a gang of thugs. David is killed but Erica survives, only to find herself a stranger in her own skin, facing down her fears by shooting violent criminals.

With the city riveted by her anonymous actions, Erica becomes an object of curiosity for a police detective (an excellent Terrence Howard) disillusioned by his own struggles to protect the innocent from truly evil men. Jordan's previous films (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto) resonate with The Brave One's most interesting angle, i.e., that each of us possesses a hidden element in our identities that comes out in extreme circumstances, making us wonder who we really are. It's all excellent food for thought, but the film squanders much of its significance by thrusting Erica into numerous, outlandish situations in which her only alternative is to put a bullet in a bad guy. The result is a smart film tediously structured like a disposable B movie. --Tom Keogh

The Brave One (Widescreen Edition) Customer Reviews

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story of and for our times

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"The Brave One" deftly retells 1970s "Death Wish" as a parable of 9/11 and its aftermath.

NYC residents Erica Bain (Foster) and her fiance David are suddenly and brutally attacked by street thugs one evening, falling like the twin towers. David dies, Erica survives.

Frightened and paranoid that anyone could be her next attacker, she buys a gun. Within a short time she's forced to shoot someone in self-defense. This gives her confidence to shoot again when she's menaced by some bullies -- or would-be rapists -- on the subway.

She then begins to practically look for trouble. And finds it with a demented pimp holding a young girl as his captive prostitute. This is both an homage to Foster's role in "Taxi Driver" and an analog to Afghanistan's female-suppressing Taliban regime.

Erica moves on to seek out and kill a vicious criminal who had dodged the justice system. I can't recall the character's name, but "Saddam Hussein" is close enough. There's no doubt he was a bad man but Erica herself continues to descend into amorality ... and she knows it.

The story of revenge run amok arcs to a conclusion as Erica finds and kills her original assailants. Only then can she walk through the dark tunnel where she was attacked, emerging on the other side at last.

Throughout the story themes and images of alienation and estrangement are in play. As a stand-in for America, Erica's transformation parallels our own as we trade our trusting nature for fear, our peacefulness for war, our freedoms for elements of a police state. Erica seems unable to stop her decline (if that's what it is) until her personal al Queda -- the three killers -- are dead.

"The Brave One" subtly and bravely challenges us to think about the costs of vengeance and how tenuous security can be.

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