Willard - in which Crispin Glover lives in the Psycho house with his
gross old mom, one nice rat, one mean rat, and several hundred sheep
rats. R Lee Ermee is his boss and some weird office where his father
used to own the company, and he is the worst employee, that one new girl
seems to like for plot related reasons. He tries to exclude the mean
rat, Big Ben, but Ben isn't having it, and murders Willard's crazy mom
somehow. The Ben frames the nice rat for being a rat in an office, and
watches his demise. Willard cries. Unhinged Willard lives in growing
squalor until Big Ben has had enough of him, survives a mouse trap,
minus a paw, and leads the charge to kill their trainer and master, Rat
King Willard.
Death Wish (1974) - in which the justice system fails a man who lost his family, and he goes off the rails in finding personal justice. I mean vengeance. Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a husband and father and architect, who has a nice NYC life. One day, near the beginning of the movie, Paul's wife is murdered and his daughter is raped into a catatonic state, from which she will not likely recover. Sexist. Anyways, Paul is destroyed, so his boss sends him out to New Mexico, or another lawless state, for a 3 month long project. Paul does some recovering while he is out there, and is befriended by his big money client, with a big hat and big guns. Upon arriving back in NYC, Paul is disheartened to find his daughter in terrible condition, and his son-in-law coping poorly. There have also been no arrests in his wife's murder, as the police are very busy with a crime spree related to gang violence. Paul is a really sympathetic guy, and his pain is visible, and very real. So,...
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