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ziggywiggy's avatar

Watters is garbage. I was "housing insecure" at one point in my life, as in I wasn't living on the streets but I didn't know where I would be sleeping from week to week and could at any point have ended up with cardboard for a blanket. I lived that way for 5 months. It was traumatizing, you cannot focus on anything but where you will be living, you go hungry so you have a place to sleep. It was 14 years ago but thinking about it now still brings tears. People need help not hate.

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Speaking of how rare it is to stick up for the homeless, there's an action movie on Netflix called "Peppermint". Standard action/revenge story, really. It's kinda right out the pages of the Punisher comic book. Family gets gunned down, justice system fails the sole survivor. She goes on the run, spends 5 years learning how to be a bad ass killer, then returns to her home city to exact revenge on the people who made her life hell.

One of the few twists on the standard plot is that she isn't Bruce Wayne wealthy and isn't doing the Punisher thing of stealing all the cash from the drug dealers and spending it on fancy safe houses. No, she lives on the street, and gives back to those living on the street. Even though she's in it for revenge, the bit about empathizing with homeless folks who have it worse than she does (and frequently giving THEM the money she finds when she caps the baddies) keeps her a human and sympathetic character while she's lobbing hand grenades at drug lords.

Sure, it's violent revenge-fantasy, but as violent action movies go, it's a good one with a heart.

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