Vigilante | Offscreen
The vigilante film is one of cinema's most controversial subgenres, featuring heroes that take the law into their own hands.
With Quentin Tarantino as a big fan, "Rolling Thunder" is one of the best known examples of the genre. In some way a "Taxi Driver Part 2" it shares its script writer Paul Schrader with Scorsese's classic. Director is John Flynn who would later make films with Stallone and Seagal...
"Dupont Lajoie" forms an ideological counterpoint of the genre: it uses the vigilante film to denounce the latent racism of French society in the seventies. This controversial film caused a big scandal on its release and gave Jean Carnet his best known role - as well as Isabelle Huppert one of the first in her career.
Rolling Thunder
A Vietnam veteran witnesses the murder of his family and in the fight loses his hand in a meat grinder. Now armed with a hook, he vows revenge on the assailants, leading to an explosive finale! The nihilistic script was written by Paul Schrader.
Dupont Lajoie
At a campsite in the south of France, a Parisian tourist rapes and kills the daughter of his friends. He accuses North African workmen of the murder and urges the other campers to take revenge.
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