I remember getting in a fight with my mom outside of Times Square, because I felt that she’d stolen a cab from somebody. Your character says she has to create an imaginary city to store all of her memories, since the city that existed in her childhood has been gentrified out of existence. She loves this city but also hates it-in the way she loves this part of herself emerging that’s authentic and real but also despicable and hateful. The movie is not about vengeance I think it’s actually about rage. So, what separates this film from a standard vigilante flick? It was also about a man descending into madness, and about a country and a city repairing themselves after this war nobody believed in. You know, there’s quite an interesting parallel. You think people feel less safe than in the days of, say, Taxi Driver? This is the safest big city in the world, but I don’t think people feel safer, particularly after 9/11.

This film, The Brave One, is very self-consciously about post-9/11 New York.

The brave one jodie foster love scene