IMPERIALISM OF ALL COLORS AND SHADES

DENZEL WASHINGTON — THE EQUALIZER 2014 — THE EQUALIZER 2 2018 — THE EQUALIZER 3 2023–2023

The actor is good, and he is black, which is very important in this context. The context is urban crime and violence, with no real effort from the police to do anything. The only change from one film to the next is the type of crime, otherwise, it is always the same pattern. Crime — Passive Police — Robert McCall Tekes Over. This pattern is extremely dangerous for any audience. It justifies the passivity of the police who cannot do anything because criminals today are stopping nowhere and have no limits, hence they have a tremendous future. Then the second line is simple: private citizens must be concerned and if they are they have to take over and just plain get rid of these criminals. If we were in a Western film, a spaghetti western if you want, the criminals would be white and that would be a family affair, and as such other white people could take it into their own hands. Or the criminals would be Indians, and then in the good old Western racist tradition: Kill them all and do not ask questions, especially when they a(re all dead.