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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Defendor, it treats a painfully ordinary, unstable would-be hero with surprising sincerity, balancing DIY vigilantism, bruising violence, and pitch-black comedy rather than superhero spectacle.
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Why this pick
This is an especially close companion: a lonely man’s conviction that he has become superhuman is played as both an oddly hopeful comic fantasy and a deeply human psychological struggle.
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Why this pick
A homemade gadget-loving vigilante brings the same earnest, low-rent superhero spirit and emotional openness, though with a broader and lighter comic tone than Defendor.
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Why this pick
It similarly asks what happens when regular people take comic-book vigilantism literally, mixing improvised heroics and abrupt danger, but delivers it with flashier, more stylised energy.
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Why this pick
For Defendor’s blend of damaged idealism, social frustration, and uncomfortable humour, this follows another alienated man whose urge to punish cruelty becomes a darkly comic crusade.
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01 / THE STORY
Dr. Park (Sandra Oh), a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a vigilante known as "Defendor", who tells about assaulting a police officer who claims to be working undercover. Dooney (Elias Koteas) is a corrupt detective who Defendor believes is in the employ of his nemesis, "Captain Industry," who Arthur blames for his mother leaving him as a child, dying of drug abuse later; his grandfather ended up raising him, teaching him how to read through comics.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Chuck Dooney
Dr. Park
Wendy Carter
Poppington
Judge Wilson
Constable Mike
Wayne
Doctor
