Why Not Get Back At the Criminals Who Were Shooting It Out?

That's because Europe thinks capitalism is to blame for all crime, not the actual criminals who commit the crimes themselves. I mean hell, these morons shut down their own country with riots and destruction of property just because the government raised the retirement age by two years. Two. Years.

I lost my aunt to a drunk driver, but if I were the lead character in this piece of garbage, instead of going after the drunk who killed her, I'd instead go after Chevy for building the vehicle he was driving, or whomever made the booze he was drinking that night, even though they had nothing directly to do with her death.

Ultimately, this dude was a complete coward who didn't have the stones to go after the gun toting murderers themselves, and so targets the Big Bad Business instead. This is why America has Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood, and the French have this joker and his retarded suspenders.

What political perspective do you have that justifies selling arms to known warlords and dictators? Because that's exactly what they were doing. The man's father was killed by a land mine. How many street thugs do you see using those?

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also, missing the point. the bullet that hit his face went off when a gun hit the ground, not when the ruffians fired in his general direction; symbolism favors the vengeance on the arms dealers rather than the customers. not only that, but where would he start trying to find those exact gun-toting goofballs hm? he came up with the whole plan to kill two birds w/ one fancy plan on a lark, and considering those arms dealing jerks (apparently illegally) sell to all sorts of riffraff, it's really a more effective plan.
it doesn't sound like you paid much attention to the film at all. it really deserves at least another viewing, even if you may not agree with whatever politics you feel jeunet features in his films.

Maybe the people who initially shot up the video store were caught soon after.

We've met before, haven't we?

And how do you suggest he find them in order to get his revenge? It's sheer luck that he ended up on the street where the bullet maker has his company with the logo on the front of it to match the bullet casing that his replacement at the video store just happened to find and just happened to hand to him.

It's like asking why Amelie doesn't return childhood toys to a different person instead of the one she does. It's because those are the ones she found.


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