The Brave One

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Academy Award winner Jodie Foster stars as Erica Bain, host of a New York radio show whose life is shattered by a brutal attack that leaves the love of her life dead, her own body shattered and her sense of safety permanently destroyed. Now, when Erica's fear of her beloved city becomes too much to bear, she arms herself...

The first time Erica shoots someone, it is kill or be killed. The second time it is also self-defense ... or did she make a choice not to take herself out of harms way? The fear that once gripped her has become something else. And as stories of an anonymous vigilante grip New York, NYPD detective Sean Mercer pieces together the clues. With both Mercer and her conscience closing in, Erica must confront the possibility that her quest for justice has changed her into the very thing she hunts.

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Release:

2007

Running Time:

122 min

Certificate:

Contains strong violence and very strong language

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Director:

Neil Jordan

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Joanne Peacock
Jodie Foster is fantastic
06 December 2008
Ever the professional, this is one of Jodie Foster's best performances. It follows her sorrowful feelings and emotions which follow the murder of her true love (Naveen Andrews), and investigated the intense feelings of isolation and dislocation from her life. It is easy for people to reflect upon this movie, as it deals with the many repercussions of someone affected by violence.
There is an element in this movie of exaggeration for Hollywood purposes - for example, the beginning of the film shows Foster as a bit dingily dressed, and filled with grief, gradually overcoming her loss and in typical film style, also becoming better looking and polished at the same time. Despite this, the film deals with a lot of complex issues in a sophisticated way, from the nature of justice, to vigilantism, to the grief process and its associating revenge.
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