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| | Black Sunday (1977): Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | Ultimately, Black Sunday simultaneously supports Kabakov's vigilante justice (since his methods actually prevent the massacre at the Super Bowl), while maintaining that the U.S. can preserve democratic ideals (such roundabout rationalizing is familiar from vigilante movies like Dirty Harry [1971] and Death Wish [1974], though these films also reveal the costs of such aggression). |
 | | But Black Sunday does not celebrate this "victory," as its final image of Kabakov swinging wildly from a helicopter implies his own precarious position: a covert agent useful when times are dire but never officially acknowledged. |
 | | Black Sunday identifies political allegiances, personal history, national sovereignty, and "free market" capitalism, as these determine policy decisions and global conflicts, underlining that contemporary U.S. debates on terrorism and foreign policy lack a similar complexity. |
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