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Article: Playing the victim; Jodie Foster goes Travis Bickle in the misguided revenge movie "The Brave One.".(VITA.MN)(Movie review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 13, 2007
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Byline: Colin Covert; Staff Writer
Word association test. What's the first word to pop into your head? Roses: red. Sugar: sweet. Jodie Foster: victimized.
Foster rarely stars in a film where she isn't somehow abused, typecasting that has reduced one of our most resourceful actresses to performing a string of variations on a plonking, one-note theme. And so it is with "The Brave One," which puts her in the sort of thankless role that would have gone to Ashley Judd a few years ago. She plays Erica, a New York radio essayist who one fateful night loses her boyfriend, her dog and her moral bearings in a gang attack, and emerges transformed into a ...