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The tyre iron scene doesn't ring true for me.


What man would do nothing and pussy out and do nothing as a woman smashes his car's lights out?

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I wouldn't have got out of my car either as she was acting like a total nut job! I would have driven a little bit up the road and then called the cops, if she tried to leave I would have followed her at a safe distance until the cops came. Better than getting walloped on the bonse with a tire iron!

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I don't subscribe to the idea that one shouldn't hit women simply because they are women. In certain circumstances, women absolutely deserve to get whalloped, and this is one of them. I would have gotten out of the car and pushed her, and if she raises her tireiron, then that would get me rights to sock her, and I would.

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presumably , in the film , she was smashing the guys car because he'd raped her?

In that case that invalidates the guys rights on fighting back or not having his car smashed - he's already in the wrong.

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So if you commit a crime you are then a valid target for more crime? Yeah no that's not how the justice system works and you know it.

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True, it wouldnt be legal.
But it'd be morally right ,in some circumstances , depending on the severity
especially if the real justice had failed , as i believe it did in the film

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FTR I have not seen this movie

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me neither , i'm just intrigued at the kind of threads its producing.

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He did not. It was actually just road rage on a random guy she had never seen before in her life.

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Let’s back up. This is just preposterous, lazy writing. Who sits honking behind a lone car on the roadway and gets upset?

Then, who watches someone approaching their vehicle with a lug wrench and waits around to see what’s going to happen?

Also, was that guy just some random victim? I didn’t see anything in the story that would set him up as a predator of any kind.

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Actually, golf club scene. I think it was a subtle jab at the infamous Tiger Woods fiasco.

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Happily, the idiot OP has left MovieChat.

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