don't do reviews.
God bless the people who review works of art and media for mass consumption, but I'm not one of them.
So this is not a spoiler-filled review of "The Equalizer," starring Denzel Washington and directed by Antoine Fuqua.
It's the result of the impressions left on me by the film.
Starring Denzel as the lone, ex-government agent Robert McCall, the film tells the story of how a Very Dangerous Man tries to live a life as a "normal person," but it's a lie. He's not a normal person and it was only a matter of time before that truth won out over his job at Home Mart.
In the original television series on which the film was based, Robert McCall was played by a Caucasian British actor named Edward Woodward. This time, the character is played by a Black man...
...and that's where the divergence begins, on a level beyond the superficial and immediately marketable.
A question that could, does, and will continue to keep presenting itself in American society by those who care to examine things from a cultural, statistical, or sociological standpoint is "What does it take for a Black man to achieve the same standing as a White man in America?" This is not about superiority of any kind, but it is about the truth that American society is not one of equality when it comes to men of color, and Black men in particular, for a number of reasons too long and hot-button to get into here.
The lack of the examination of that question is one of the various reasons the "Daredevil" film of years gone by did not convince me of the merit of its fictional world. Seeing the character of Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin of Crime, played by the now-deceased Michael Clarke Duncan, I was looking forward to seeing what it would take for a
Black man to become such a formidable underworld figure. The question was never answered.But I think, just maybe, director Antoine Fuqua examined the question underneath the basic story of Denzel's Robert McCall.
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