Most antiheroes make heroes and villains seem positively dull.
When right and wrong become blurred.
This leads to a transcendent escapade through one troubling night of dread, mistakes, and crime.
Connie Nikas is almost impossible to ignore onscreen.
He is bold and daring while failing at almost every endeavor he takes.
The venomous tirade became the anthem of every scorned woman in 2014.
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Amy is the epitome of a monster.
Yet, she is still relatable.
Not in the way of toxic relationships and murders, but for the circumstances of her character.
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The deep-seated desire to make the person who wronged you feel pain is incredibly cathartic.
Lou Bloom, like many antiheroes, has a sadistically dark side.
Joe is the jagged counterpart toTaxi Driver’sTravis Bickle, both men hellbent on rescuing young girls from horrible corruption.
Joe is the solemn monster created by a brutal childhood.
Driver is a good man who does bad things.
Gosling portrays the character’s quiet emotions and morose existence perfectly.
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Oh Dae-Su is anything but the upstanding hero you’re used to seeing in revenge films.
He is obnoxious, unstable, and brutal, with almost no redeeming qualities.
Lisbeth is the choppy, black-haired protagonist with enough piercings and leather to join a rock band.
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Lisbeth is special in every way, not just in her appearance.
She is intelligent, sharp, and intuitive, all hidden behind a dark past.
Antiheroes are often portrayed in revenge films for a reason: they make the most well-rounded characters.
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Lisbeth is the young woman who uses revenge as a way to process her own trauma.
She is even admirable, depending on who you ask.
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Cassie Thomas is not who she says she is.
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Inside, she is wickedly cunning and full of secrets and violent fantasies.
By night, she spends her time manipulating predatory men into taking her home with them.
Promising Young Womandoes everything it shouldn’t, and it does it well.
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Even in death, she will haunt those men for the rest of their lives.
In death, she found peace.
A pickpocket and a con-man have other plans for her though.
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None go as planned, as Lady Hideko is just too sharp for them.
She and Sookee start off in the film as two sides of the same coin.
Hideko is always one step ahead of every character in the film, and it’s deliciously satisfying.
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And yet, he is more real than the Narrator will ever be.
Tyler Durden stands for the ire of toxic masculinity that plagued a culture of lost, invisible men.
Tyler is manipulative, selfish, and cocky.
He is also the epitome of absolute chaos.
He wants everyone around him to let go of everything that chains them to their capitalistic lives.
And he’s not wrong.
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