The Messenger Is The Medium

Bruce Willis’s remake of Death Wish got panned. Flamed. Excoriated. Racism, sexism, gun-ism, failure to recycle, the works.

Now comes Peppermint, starring Jennifer Garner.

And what’s the theme, you ask?

“What do I want? I want justice,” Garner warns in the trailer’s opening seconds. From there, we see her spending quality time with her family before tragedy strikes. She retreats for a while, licking her wounds and turning herself into a living weapon.

Why? To take out the trash.

And the media the skinned Willis alive? Silent.

This is nothing new, of course; about ten years ago, Hollywood released a couple of movies where sympathetic characters went on vigilante sprees, where “sympathetic” meant suitably left of center; most noxious was Jodie Foster as an NPR host who went all Charles Bronson on her husband’s killer.

The lesson?

The only thing consistent about out culture’s misbegotten “elites” is ther hypocrisy.

12 thoughts on “The Messenger Is The Medium

  1. I’m pretty right wing and have a lot of guns, I am solidly ensconced in gunny culture. I hated Willis’ Death Wish, just saw it. It’s qualitatively bad, period, and then yeah there’s a bit of racial dog whistling.

  2. I liked the idea of reading Milton Friedman’s essays on economics to someone in a coma.

  3. The movie is being criticized on the Left because it has too many Hispanic bad guys.
    Being “woke” means believing that everything bad in the world has its origin in white supremicism, and expressing that belief in every action you take.
    No exceptions.

  4. Plot synopsis from Wikipedia:

    When Riley North’s (Jennifer Garner) husband and daughter are killed in a drive-by shooting by members of a cartel and the killers walk free owing to corrupt officials on the cartel’s payroll, she takes matters into her own hands and seeks vigilante justice against those who destroyed her life.

    So why, I ask myself, were the villains from a (presumably) Hispanic cartel? Why not from an oil company whose irrational desire to mine frac-sand in Riley North’s backyard drives them to murder?

    The answer is obvious.

    There are too many white male writers in Hollywood. Time to do something about that.

  5. Death Wish – 48.6 million
    John Wick — 171.5 million
    The Accountant – 155.2 million

    Perhaps a bad movie deserves it’s reviews. The audience votes with its wallet.

  6. I’m a righty. I just saw Willis’ Death Wish. It’s qualitatively bad, period, and then yeah there’s a bit of racial dog whistling.

  7. I’m a righty. I just saw the Willis’ movie. It’s qualitatively bad, period, and then yeah there’s a bit of racial dog whistling.

  8. John, would you mind giving some examples of what made the movie “qualitatively bad, period?”

  9. *Bruce Willis, ya know, leading man and action hero… well the movie has to start out with him understood as some kind of mope and wimp. It doesn’t fly. His plastic surgery makes him look like an alien, btw.
    *Elizabeth Shue as a supporting actress and wife character who is never cross…. it doesn’t pass a test for suspension of disbelief. She’s TOO perfect, it was cloying.
    *The minority greaseball types that are the criminals are over the top in their malevolence.

    Taken as a whole, the white revenge porn storyline and characters there are rightfully understood as something of a cracker exploitation genre. I’m not even woke, and I was embarrassed watching it.

  10. It was an NRA ad. Willis goes from mopey and wimpy to robust and masculine once he has a gun. I’m a 2A absolutist, by the way. Obnoxious movie though, and not helpful.

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