"The Brave One" is the liberal, feminist remake of Bronson's "Death Wish" series. Proving, I suppose, that women are as capable as men of doing evil things, but they struggle with them more.
Foster plays a Manhattanite who, while walking the dog in Central Park with her fiance, is beaten, the dog stolen and her fiance murdered. After several weeks of trying to cope with this, she buys a gun and becomes a vigilantte. Similar to Bronson in "Death Wish I," her first experience is accidential...i.e. she gets into a bad situation and defends herself, killing her attacker. Unlike Bronson, however, the "accidents" keep reoccuring and she just keeps shooting. [In Bronson's case, it only takes a single incident to put him in the "hunt."] At the end, and after four or five "accidents," she finds her fiance's killers and takes them all out, although not without remorse and abit of luck in being trailed by a street-wise and understanding cop. Does she get her dog back? I won't say and spoil the film for you.
Intellectual depth is presumably shown through Foster's struggle with herself on whether or not to keep killing. She understands, at some level, that what she is doing is "wrong" but just can't keep from doing what, on another level, she believes is right.
The question posed is how do good people survive in the face of evil without becoming evil themselves?
I am not sure there are any breakthrough moral issues here. In fact, the film could be easily interpreted as saying: "If you believe, in your heart, that revenge is OK; it's OK as long as you worry and fret about it." Eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth trumps turning the other cheek.
But, it's probably a reasonable portrayal of approximately where Christians stand today.
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