Review of Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 27 Jul 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

It is not the usual film with the heroic protagonist having to deal with a PTSD. Jolie has a broken heart to which the wounds to her hands and feet are added. In short, also Zaillian adapts by producing a film where the christologically stigmatized and messianically salvific figures are women and mothers, while we males are judged expendable (the only exception allowed: if we are part of their offspring). The man-hunt or almost is well directed, but it does not hold up such a trendy and biased ideological burden: paradoxically, movies like "Silent Fall" (Beresford 1994) or "Mercury Rising" (Becker 1998) have shown greater courage with their examples of caregiving manhood.