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...voice mail. Her home is a jail, but outside - the city whose byways it has been her job and passion to celebrate - is a charnel house she fears to enter. When Erica forces herself to go out, to the police station, the law ignores her pleas to investigate the murder...
...lived in New York for 42 years, and as I watch the movie I'm thinking that this New York is both foreign - Baghdad without the car bombs - and familiar. Then it dawns on me: Erica, and the movie, have got caught in a time machine. Before the murder she lived in New York, 2007; after, she's in New York 1974, when the city was near bankruptcy, subways were blighted by graffiti, the murder rate had more than doubled in eight years and the mood of the people was grim and guarded. They might have cheered a citizen-vigilante...
...that century; New York's murder rate has fallen back to 1966 levels; and we have a movie that wants to attach the old dread to a very livable town. The Brave One makes urban paranoia a form of nostalgia. A caller to Erica's radio shows voices that sentiment. "I think it's good for New York," he says of the mystery killer's exploits. "This place was turning into Disneyland." Like the Bronson character, Erica has become a hero to edgy New Yorkers - because she kills people who deserve to die. Or, rather, she takes the role...
...been shy about admitting to his crimes. Pichuzkin detailed his exploits in a televised confession that aired shortly after his arrest in June 2006, following a five-year stretch of killings that plagued the neighborhoods around Moscow's vast Bitzevsky Park. "For me, a life without murder is like a life without food for you," he declared. "I felt like the father of all these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world." At one point, furious that the police had cast their suspicion on another person, he promptly went out and killed...
...told her son where she was going and gave him Pichuzkin's cellphone number. Pichuzkin was also caught on a subway surveillance cameras with the victim, and when confronted with the taped evidence, he confessed to everything. Proudly, though he did admit to some hesitation about his final murder. "As were heading to the park and talking, I kept thinking whether to kill her or take caution. But finally I decided to take a risk. I was in that mood already...