A Review Of The Brave One And Death Sentence

I did not quote the line verbatim since I'd have to rent the DVD again, For Your Eyes Only, to hear the old proverb as it was spoken in the film.

Regardless, the meaning seems to sum up much of what I interpreted from watching two different films with two different actors who play characters with two very different but equal reasons for wanting justice or even revenge.

Only after the characters in both films have tasted revenge do they realize that there's no going back once they've crossed that line. Justice hasn't served them at all and revenge has only made them into familiar looking strangers who look at themselves in the mirror or in old home videos hoping to recognize the people that they used to be.

The films that I saw this weekend were the Brave One, starring Oscar winning actress Jodie Foster and Death Sentence staring Kevin Bacon.
The Brave One revolves around the main character, Erica Bains, played by Foster who loses the love of her life along with their dog during a romantic nighttime stroll in the park.

Erica Bain's fiancee, played by British Actor Naveen Andrews, is beaten beyond recovery along with Bain by some local gang punks after they step into the nightmarish scenario of 'being in the wrong place at the wrong time'.

This tragic scenario also plays out for the eldest son of Death Sentence main character John Hume played by Kevin Bacon, as Hume's son is murdered during a robbery of a gas station with Hume barely able to stop it from happening as his son is taken from him before his eyes.