“The Brave One” - Jodie Foster's new film
Jodie Foster has great skills to play in this kind of movie. Remember the “Panic room” and the “Flightplan” she was so great, she was so in that character. And now here comes a new movie with Foster.
In “The Brave One” she will play the character Erica Bain, a successful NYC radio host with a loving fiancé. But her world is shattered when she is brutally beaten and the love of her life is killed. When the police are unable to help her, Erica goes on a vigilante hunt on the city streets to track down and get revenge against the men who ruined her life. Bain is planning to kill this man. They ride together in an elevator. Erica looks at him, not so much studying him as preparing for the kill. Her look is hungry, happy, feral, terrifying. She's not quite human. She can almost taste blood.
“I think we all have these ideas that there are lines that we would never cross and people we could never be,” says Jodie Foster. “And yet, you don’t know how you would become in a certain circumstance. You might assume intellectually, what your ethics might be, but until you are forced into a situation that challenges you, that changes you, you can’t know who you would be.”
The director Neil Jordan adds “The Brave One poses some uneasy moral questions. I think when we are wronged, a part of us would love to react with a kind of primitive brutality so we could right it immediately. But we don’t because civilization teaches us not to do that. So the spectacle of seeing somebody descending into a morally questionable area is both horrifying and fascinating at the same time.”
The release date is September 14, meaning today.
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