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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 87269, member: 1510"] It was a mix of Reagan-era politics (the economics clearly referenced early on in the film) and the media becoming less neutral after the cancellation of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine']Fairness Doctrine[/URL] (which, of course, ended under Reagan the previous year). Basically, there was nothing stopping the media from using unethical methods like excluding opposing but otherwise legit opinions or [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)']dog whistling[/URL]. (And this was at the start of that trend; it slowly got worse until the early 00s when it was fully visible to the public.) So what you ended up with is media (mainly TV media, but also some others) that looked perfectly fair on the surface but was lying to your face, and your only way of telling otherwise was to take the time to find good, usually print media that still practiced ethics (which required extra money spent on copies and/or subscriptions you might not want for the long term). [I]Falling Down[/I] is one of those films that can be good if you don't skip the ending, which all too many of its fans do. It's important to note that the "I'm the bad guy" line is supposed to turn the whole film on its head, showing you that Foster never really had a good point in what he was doing. Yes, you can argue that he sometimes did right, like how he dealt with the neo-Nazi, but other times, like his meltdown over not getting his breakfast, he was just out of his mind. The film further hints that he wasn't a good person to begin with (his wife left him for a good reason). And yet a lot of fans just ignore all that. It's unfortunate that this happens to way too many good films. [I]Scarface[/I], [I]Fight Club[/I], [I]American Psycho[/I], and other well done films have all too many fans who only appreciate them on the surface level. It seems to happen a lot with films that have a somewhat macho main character who seems cool on the surface but by the end of the film is proven to be pretty pathetic when you stop to think about it. That's actually a great set up for a film, but it gets lost on anyone who wrongfully identifies with the main character and thus ends up pretending the ending never happened. [/QUOTE]

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