Cassandra Truth: In much the same way that the cyclops told his fellow cyclops that "Nobody blinded me" in The Odyssey, Chloe tells Mercer that nobody (what Erica referred to herself as) saved her.Car Fu: The pimp Erica rescues Chloe from tries to run them both down, but only succeeds in hitting Chloe completely by accident after Erica blew his brains out.Burn Baby Burn: At one point, Detective Mercer burns a picture of himself and his ex-wife as a symbol of finally accepting that they will never reconcile, much to his chagrin.Brooklyn Rage: A couple of the call-in guests who support Erica's vigilante actions naturally sound like they come from the Red Hook neighborhood.Broken Bird: Erica is deeply traumatized by the attack, at one point saying doesn't even care if she gets cancer from smoking, and can no longer feel safe in a city she once loved.Boom, Headshot!: Three of Erica's kills go down this way.There's a noticeable lack of Gun Porn compared to the gun buying scenes in Taxi Driver and Death Sentence. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a Kar K-9 automatic for a thousand dollars, throwing in a box of ammunition and an impromptu instruction on how to load and fire it.
Black-and-Grey Morality: The film presents a more nuanced version of vigilantism than the usual revenge porn.Big "SHUT UP!": What Erica screams as she executes the last of her attackers.Big Rotten Apple: Erica hates that she now fears the city she once loved after her attack.Big Apple Sauce: The film takes place in New York, with the attack that sets the plot in motion happening in Central Park.Beware the Nice Ones: Erica, especially at the beginning, is a sweet, madly in love talk radio host.
Attack the Mouth: Erica kills one of her assailants by shooting him in the mouth whilst also shrieking at him to shut up as he pathetically begs for his life.Indeed, her husband did kill her, but he's killed by Erica before any charges are brought against him. He says that aside from women using a gun to kill themselves is uncommon, they almost never shoot themselves in the head/face, instead opting to shoot themselves in the heart. Ate Her Gun: Discussed and defied by Detective Mercer when a Sleazy Politician's wife allegedly commit suicide via a gunshot wound to the head.
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