Reviews>Motion Picture Review: Ebert, Roger (February 26, 1993), Falling Down, Chicago Sun Times, Retrieved on 2011-03-04Source Material [rogerebert.suntimes.com]
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04 MAR 2011
How Ideologues Manipulate the Unfortunate
Because the character is white, and many of his targets are not, the movie could be read as racist. I prefer to think of it as a reflection of the real feelings of a lot of people who, lacking the insight to see how political and economic philosophies have affected them, fall back on easy scapegoating. If you don't have a job and the Korean shop owner does, it is easy to see him as the villain. It takes a little more imagination to realize that you lost your job because of the greedy and unso...People fall to easy scapegoating because they cannot see the larger picture at work keeping them down in life.