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The Brave One
Why this pick
Like Ms. 45, it follows a traumatized New York woman reclaiming agency through vigilante violence, with a bruised urban mood and a morally unsettled revenge trajectory.
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MOVIE1981 1h 21m USA
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Why this pick
Its stylized visual control, female-led revenge, and sustained tension make it a strong fit, though it trades Ms. 45's raw street grime for meticulously composed melodrama.
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Vigilante
Why this pick
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Why this pick
This scrappy underground feminist vigilante film shares Ms. 45's downtown grit, anger toward misogynistic violence, and confrontational exploitation-cinema energy.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, Manhattan, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a mysterious, masked attacker. She survives and makes her way back to her apartment, where she encounters a burglar and is raped a second time. Thana, her name an allusion to Greek god of death Thanatos, hits this second assailant with a small sculpture then bludgeons him to death with an iron, and carries his body to the bathtub. She goes to work the next day, and after encountering working with an iron, watching her boss Albert rip a shirt off a mannequin, she goes into Acute stress reaction, which worries her co-workers. However, when she looks at the trash bin at her office, she decides to dismember the burglar's corpse and throw the parts away in various locations of the city.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Zoë Lund
Thana
Abel Ferrara
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