
At first glance, even at second glance, I wouldn't imagine that anyone would classify this film in the "horror" genre. Horror now means guys in masks chasing stranded, scantily clad hitchikers in a creepy old mansion. THE BRAVE ONE is the worst kind of horror film because it sets up a scenario that is real and believable and horrible to witness. One minute NPR talk show host Erica Bain (Jody Foster) is alive; really alive. Her big blue eyes twinkle and pure joy and love seep from her every pore. One violent night she and her fiancee are attacked and we bid a fond farewell to those twinkling peepers. This of course is the straight set up for a revenge movie; however no one expects that a woman would react in the way Bain does. Men take their anger out, women suck it in, but not this time. What's best about her character is that noticable difference between the "old" Bain and the new hurt, grieving ready for blood Bain. The portrayal and the film are raw and gritty and dirty and very, very real. She doesn't break down (like other women might do in this type of film) she fights to hold on to a life that only now resembled hers.

Pick: Incredible well done film all around; conflicted ending worth the whole soul of the film.
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