The highlight of the film is its script which both touches and leaves you jolted. The movie has a taut story line and superb piece of acting by Joddie Foster and Terrence Howard (Detective Mercer), who is, by the way, one of the most underrated actors of Hollywood. She survives a brutal assault on her and her boyfriend by three goons one night in the Central Park of New York city, which she used to call ‘the biggest and safest city in the world’. This is a film about a survivor, Erica Bains, a radio host, played by Joddie Foster. The movie also portrays the darker side of the victims of brutality when they chose revenge as their only path to survival. Not the kind of strength that you need to exact revenge for the wrongs done to you, but the strength that you need to survive any kind of trauma or abuse.

I’ve watched this movie several times and every time I could derive a little more strength and inspiration from it. ‘The Brave One’ is one of those few Hollywood movies which has a well thought out script that brilliantly draws parallels between the dark side of human psyche and the underbelly of a metropolis.

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