| Man on Fire Denzel Washington stars as a government operative/soldier of fortune who has pretty much given up on life. In Mexico City, he reluctantly agrees to take a job to protect a child (Fanning) whose parents are threatened by a wave of kidnappings. He eventually becomes close to the child and their relationship reawakens and rekindles his spirit. When she is abducted, his fiery rage is unleashed on those he feels responsible, and he stops at nothing to save her.
Straw Dogs Director Sam Peckinpah (WILD BUNCH) was a rare bird in the 1960s and 1970s. His sense of what made for entertaining cinema was sometimes polarizing to the audience he was reaching out to. Since the birth of cinema, depictions of graphic violence, like sexuality, have remained hotly contested and endlessly debated. Peckinpah always was most comfortable with violence for violence sake, and he was never afraid to exposed our violent nature as human beings and hold it up for us to see, sometimes much to our dismay.
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