It's hard to imagine that in today's Hollywood, it would be applauded for a film with such "dangerous" values.
But in 2007, the film disappeared during the awards season, except for bringing Judy Foster a Golden Globe nomination.
Even New York, known as the city that never sleeps, can't be illuminated by neon lights all over the city. Erika, a radio host played by Judy, lives in New York, and one night, she and her fiancé are besieged by a mob, and she is seriously injured, while her fiancé is brutally killed.
A few weeks later, Erika woke up from her coma, collapsing and suffering even more bitterly the inability to find the culprit. In order to get revenge, she bought a gun and, in one accident after another, lived a life of constantly killing male villains to "fight violence for the people".
Like Diane Kruger in "Out of Thin Air" or Joaquin Phoenix in "Joker", Judy's appearance in the film is also unfortunate, and under the oppression of society, he embarks on a path of revenge.
At the same time, the film and the character can also be seen as an attempt to echo "Taxi Driver" that year. Judy is about a woman who nearly lost her life and woke up with nothing.
She could only rely on a gun to protect herself and use it to kill people again and again. From not using guns at all to becoming a "female gunner" skillfully, the psychological and physical fears, insecurities, and the multiple ethical dilemmas of the individual deeply involved in society continue to erode the character's heart.
The film unfolds in the street context of New York reality, while Judy steps up erika to "get out of control" under a cool shell, ultimately on the brink of good and evil. Objectively speaking, the film itself has flaws that cannot be ignored, and Judy makes up for the completion of the film with her own performance, making every step of erika's role convincing.