Revisited: Falling Down

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by Tony Nigro I don't have a solid memory of the first time I saw Falling Down, the 1993 Michael Douglas vehicle about American white male frustration.  I remember that the movie was still fairly new, that I watched it on a television (either via cable or videotape) and that it didn't affect me much.   The time was the early 1990s.  Douglas was Hollywood's Male Victim #1.  Bill Clinton was a new President, I was in high school, and not too soon before there were riots in Los Angeles.  My interest in the film probably didn't go beyond the shoot-and-yell-at-people trend that came into vogue after Reservoir Dogs. Fast forward to the present: I spend about half of the intervening years living in New York City.  A terrorist attack occurs.  The country's tenor changes.  Back in a Los Angeles hell bent on urban development, and with renewed interest in the city's elusive soul, I figure, Hey, why not watch Falling Down again?  It's Los Angeles around the time of the riots.  That's interesting.  Why the hell not? Well, now I know.  Because it's lame.
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