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Sneeder · Oct 24, 2024

I am the goat from goat simulator or however the reddit goes

Fortuna · Oct 31, 2024

Bump.

MoonMetropolis · Oct 31, 2024

Much like how I very much identified with Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, another one of the characters who I most identified with was the character of Thana from the 1981 Abel Ferrara film Ms. 45. In the film, Thana is a mute, obviously autistic (although it's never explicitly stated), ice-cold loner in crime-infested New York City who, after being raped twice in the same day, starts killing men all over the city. The second guy who rapes her gets his head bashed in (throughout the entire movie, she's chopping up his body and throwing pieces of him into garbage cans around the city) and, after that, she starts going out at night dressed up as a prostitute and killing any men who come near her with a .45-caliber pistol. The film culminates in her shooting up an office party before being shot dead by a woman and uttering her first and only spoken word: "sister". Director Ferrara does an impressive job in his portrayal of his twisted protagonist. Thana (named after the Greek goddess of wrath, Thanatos) is a cold-blooded, amoral, emotionless psychopath with absolutely no regard for anyone's life, yet you still sympathize with her to some extent because she is a highly troubled and vulnerable young woman in a truly dismal and squalid environment (in 1981, New York City was every bit as violent as how it's portrayed in this film; 1981 was the most violent year in the city's entire history). That's exactly the kind of protagonist that I would focus on the most if I were a director. Ms. 45 is, again, basically the female version of Taxi Driver: a relentlessly harsh, grim, brutal character study of a disturbed, friendless outcast in crime-ridden New York City who finally gets pushed too far and descends into complete violent nihilism. I can really relate to characters like that.

Abel Ferrara made 2 other films about a disturbed loner wreaking havoc on the streets of New York City: The Driller Killer in 1979 and Bad Lieutenant in 1992. The Driller Killer is totally inept splatter movie garbage, but Bad Lieutenant is easily Ferrara's best film. In that one, Harvey Keitel gives the greatest performance of his career as an ultra-corrupt junkie police lieutenant tasked with investigating the rape of a nun - a nun who won't tell him who raped her because she's forgiven her rapist. The film is about the police lieutenant's redemption, and it's very well-done.

NiggerRigger · Oct 31, 2024

MoonMetropolis said:
Much like how I very much identified with Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, another one of the characters who I most identified with was the character of Thana from the 1981 Abel Ferrara film Ms. 45. In the film, Thana is a mute, obviously autistic (although it's never explicitly stated), ice-cold loner in crime-infested New York City who, after being raped twice in the same day, starts killing men all over the city. The second guy who rapes her gets his head bashed in (throughout the entire movie, she's chopping up his body and throwing pieces of him into garbage cans around the city) and, after that, she starts going out at night dressed up as a prostitute and killing any men who come near her with a .45-caliber pistol. The film culminates in her shooting up an office party before being shot dead by a woman and uttering her first and only spoken word: "sister". Director Ferrara does an impressive job in his portrayal of his twisted protagonist. Thana (named after the Greek goddess of wrath, Thanatos) is a cold-blooded, amoral, emotionless psychopath with absolutely no regard for anyone's life, yet you still sympathize with her to some extent because she is a highly troubled and vulnerable young woman in a truly dismal and squalid environment (in 1981, New York City was every bit as violent as how it's portrayed in this film; 1981 was the most violent year in the city's entire history). That's exactly the kind of protagonist that I would focus on the most if I were a director. Ms. 45 is, again, basically the female version of Taxi Driver: a relentlessly harsh, grim, brutal character study of a disturbed, friendless outcast in crime-ridden New York City who finally gets pushed too far and descends into complete violent nihilism. I can really relate to characters like that.

Abel Ferrara made 2 other films about a disturbed loner wreaking havoc on the streets of New York City: The Driller Killer in 1979 and Bad Lieutenant in 1992. The Driller Killer is totally inept splatter movie garbage, but Bad Lieutenant is easily Ferrara's best film. In that one, Harvey Keitel gives the greatest performance of his career as an ultra-corrupt junkie police lieutenant tasked with investigating the rape of a nun - a nun who won't tell him who raped her because she's forgiven her rapist. The film is about the police lieutenant's redemption, and it's very well-done.

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