‘Falling Down’ was a frightening prefiguring of the dangers of unchecked white American masculinity
Director Joel Schumacher died this week. He was 80 years old and best known for bombastic, glitz and glamour over substance blockbusters such as St Elmo’s Fire and The Lost Boys.
That film, written by actor and playwright Ebbe Roe Smith, was called Falling Down and, 27 years after its release and in the wake of its director’s death, it provides a fascinating, flawed but still pertinent examination of the fantasy wish-fulfilment of the frustrations of post-Cold-War white masculinity that speaks volumes about where the US finds itself today.
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