Death Wish
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1974 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Michael Winner |
| Cast | Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, Stuart Margolin |
| Genre | Vigilante thriller |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Death Wish | – |
| Español | El justiciero de la ciudad | El justiciero de la ciudad |
| Français | Un justicier dans la ville | Un justicier dans la ville |
| Deutsch | Ein Mann sieht rot | Ein Mann sieht rot |
| Português | Desejo de Matar | Desejo de Matar |
| Italiano | Il giustiziere della notte | Il giustiziere della notte |
| Русский | Жажда смерти | Zhazhda smerti |
| 中文（简体） | 猛龙怪客 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 猛龍怪客 | – |
| 한국어 | 데스 위시 | Deseu wisi |
| ไทย | Death Wish | Death Wish |
| Tiếng Việt | Death Wish | Death Wish |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Death Wish | Death Wish |
| 日本語 | 狼よさらば | Okami yo saraba |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which institutional justice and private vengeance collide within urban fear and personal loss.
■ Synopsis
A man whose family is destroyed by violent crime becomes a vigilante after the legal order fails to restore meaning or safety.
■ RECIPE Tags
#PrivateJustice #VigilanteTransformation #UrbanFear #MoralCorrosion
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: When the state cannot protect the victim
Reason: Public order loses authority after violence enters the private home.
Related Film: Harry Brown - Middle: Revenge becoming a substitute for justice
Reason: Personal grief is converted into repeated punitive action.
Related Film: The Brave One - Core: The avenger becoming what the wound requires
Reason: The victim survives by accepting a violent identity that cannot restore the lost world.
Related Film: Rolling Thunder
■ Secondary Axes
- Urban disorder as moral permission: Fear of the city authorizes private violence as social correction.
Related Film: Taxi Driver - Family violation as ethical rupture: Harm against loved ones collapses the boundary between justice and vengeance.
Related Film: Prisoners
■ Person
- Director: Michael Winner
- Cast: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, Stuart Margolin
■ Structural Tags
#JusticeCollapse #RevengeSubstitution #ViolentSelfFormation
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1974Film #VigilanteThriller
