Silent Violence Aesthetics

Herta 2022-03-24 09:02:02

This film has been advancing in an uneasy tone. Contradictions are everywhere, but the parties have been avoiding them. When everything is irreversible, conflicts are inevitable. In the moment when the anger broke out, it was suddenly refreshing....
It is not a sadness when the justice of the society needs to be weakened to the point where it needs an old man with emphysema to maintain. Democracy brings civil rights, for all citizens, and for the dregs of society.
Those days we fought for something, nowadays, we fight for nothing....maybe only for drugs/sex. The collective anger and riots in the last scene have no place. Looking back on life, we are not surrounded by violence and unspoken rules. Although this is a so-called old man's revenge movie, it is not an insinuation of violent reality.

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Harry Brown quotes

  • Stretch: [encouraging Brown to rape the unconscious girl on his couch] She likes to cuddle, this one. Wanna cuddle her? Do what you fucking want to her. She won't remember a thing!

    [pause]

    Stretch: What's the matter? Can't you get your cock hard anymore, old man?

  • Harry Brown: [Stretch's girlfriend starts overdosing from drugs while laying on the couch] Hey, are you sure she's OK? Maybe we should take her to the hospital?

    Stretch: [defensive] What did you just say?

    Harry Brown: Your girlfriend needs a doctor. Maybe you should call an ambulance...

    Stretch: Ain't no fucking ambulance gonna come here, brother! Do you understand me?

    Harry Brown: OK. OK, I'll- I'll mind my own business. All right?

    Stretch: That's fine. She ain't your business. She's *my* business!

    [pause]

    Stretch: Now you pay for your gun and fuck off... before I hurt you!

    [Stretch points his gun at Brown]