Grading this movie with a "five" means grading as "doubtful".
Why?!
The Movie starts with a quote from a Prime Minister from the Netherlands (from 08/10/2010 until 23/04/2012). A free translation of this quote: "We want to reclaim society from the bastards".
I resent that kind of promotion of collective fear, especially because of the way it came across to me in this movie.
In the beginning I was able to recognize what was happening; after several drawbacks and being torn between being considered to be a hero and a criminal
the main character "Max" snaps
BUT
how this turns out in the end, was very unlikely.
I believe the film should have ended at the point where he drew a gun on those young bastards that were harassing him all the time. One of the intentions of Max was to balance the escalation level of this degenerated conflict
I do not think that there would have been any other way
the law really does protect bastards too much I guess.
Alas, Max kept on degenerating after that, and this is where I felt it became doubtful
because how to reclaim society from the bastards when people like Max also become a bastard?! Until then, I think that he truly made a pretty successful effort to act sane!
On top of that
I really wonder whether these annoying boys or Max represent the TRUE bastards of society
I guess not
and I do feel that all bastards are basically full of fear
and that the enemy is within US
and it's called FEAR as well
the FEAR for the need to defend yourself in situations as depicted in this movie, and
the FEAR for yourself to do really bad stuff to other people ... to make a true effort to find out how "Room 101" needs to be prepared for someone you dearly hate ... an example of the danger of individual FEAR.
Room 101 is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia ... another example of the danger of collective FEAR
the FEAR that this Prime Minister and the movie makers are promoting
