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The Death Wish of Charles Franz Bronson
Death Wish stars action legend Charles Franz Bronson as a mild mannered self-confessed bleeding heart liberal New York City architect whose wife is murdered by a group of pre-verbal thugs. Jeff Goldblum in his first ever film role. To me and there are scenes in Death Wish that take place on the New York City subway. It prefigures in a remarkably explicit way the rise of vigilante violence in New York. Bernie gets the guardian angels who Zilwa has not gone away.
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