Falling Down: D-Fens, Destruction, and Demented Male Behavior
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Falling Down: D-Fens, Destruction, and Demented Male Behavior
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About this listen
Today, we’re talking about the 1993 Joel Schumacher film Falling Down. It follows a down-on-his luck man named William Foster (aka D-FENS) over the course of a 24 hour period on a hot day in 1990’s Los Angeles. Sitting in traffic, surrounded by a cacophonous crescendo of standard LA traffic stimuli, he abandons his car in the middle of the freeway, and sets off on a cross-city trek from East LA to Venice. Along the way, he takes out all of his pent-up resentments on a murderer’s row of LA archetypes that include: a Korean shopowner, hostile Latino gang members, homeless people, fast food workers, construction workers, a neo-nazi who owns a gun shop, and - my favorite - his ex wife (who has a restraining order against him).
Join us to discuss how this film is still relevant today, as well as to revel in how disturbed Erin was watching it.
CREDITS
Hosted by: Kristina “Krissie” Rettig & Erin Maxwell
Edited by: Russ Lichter
Theme song by: Spooky Dan