Falling Down
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In the film Falling Down, a man sits in his car behind a line of stopped cars on the freeway while a broken car is towed out of the way. It is a very hot day. He becomes agitated and angry and finally leaves his car, just walking away. He determines to walk to his wife's home, from East Los Angeles to Venice. As he encounters different people along the way, their antagonism brings out his defenses and his anger. He becomes incensed at a grocer because the grocer is overcharging for soda, and the man reacts by smashing up the store. He is attacked by gang members and fights back, eventually taking several guns which he will use later. When denied service at a fast food restaurant, he shoots the place up with a machine gun. He meets a Nazi store owner and kills him out of anger. He leaves a path of destruction as he makes his way across town until he is finally killed himself.There is a great deal of criminal behavior portrayed in the movie, not all of it related to the actions of the main character. When he first explodes in the small grocery store, he commits an act of vandalism and probably an act of assault in knocking down the store owner. When he meets the two gang members, they attack him, and his reaction is self defense and justified. When they come looking for him with an arsenal, they hurt themselves much more than they hurt him. He steals a bag of illegal arms from their car, and carrying these guns is another crime. He shoots up a phone booth and a
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gher educated--his job testifies to this. He is suffering from the stresses placed on him by the loss of his job and family exacerbated by the angst of modern urban living. Raymond (1989) reports that research has shown that the type "A" overachieving personality, cited as at risk for coronary and psychological problems, is at risk not because of time stress or long hours at work. This person is at risk for being suspicious of and hostile toward his or he fellow human beings (813). This defines D-Fens very well--he is suspicious of everyone he meets and certain that they are deliberately annoying him by challenging him, refusing him service, taking his money, and standing in his way.
Psychoanalytic theory hold that human beings are susceptible from birth to a build-up of aggressive energy which must be dissipated before it becomes dangerous. This is the psychodynamic model, and the aggression can be dissipated through catharsis, such as actual behavior in a socially accepted direction, vicariously by watching, and so on (Bartol, 176).
Freud based his views on observation of human behavior. He decided that all behavior is powered by two fundamental drives: the sex drive or the life instinct encompasses all striving for cr
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Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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