The film would be more interesting (it is zero interesting now) if Wolf had directly killed Faith. Faith character is hard to understand -- she joins a band of phony leftist crooks (Baader-Meinhof or similar) and then is laid low when she kills someone. What a nitwit.
Only Blythe Danner makes sense. But she is an excellent serious actress.
That's slightly unfair.
First: "unlikely plot" - it's a film. Would you say that, for example, "Corpse Bride" or "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" were "likely plots"?
Secondly: Faith is just a pathetic, misguided flower-child, ingesting all sorts of hallucinogenic substances that warped her mind, who truly believed that she was doing something good. When someone got hurt, showing her that she wasn't, she got a dose of reality and couldn't cope.
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Just watched this again. Your second point sums it up nicely. She was a clueless child in an adult's body. She blamed her father's death from leukemia on his work, a childish fantasy. From then on she was lost looking for vengeance under the delusion of saving the world. As annoying as she was she was also comically tragic.
shareJust watched this again. Your second point sums it up nicely. She was a clueless child in an adult's body. She blamed her father's death from leukemia on his work, a childish fantasy. From then on she was lost looking for vengeance under the delusion of saving the world. As annoying as she was she was also comically tragic.
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