Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller
In the third chapter of the Keanu Reeves action franchise, one man’s violent mission continues to provide us with an uneasy catharsis
To justify a murderous massacre filled with infinite fusillades of gun-toting violence, 2014’s John Wick offers the death of a dog. To sever the connection between man and dog, a loyal, obedient and loving creature, is sacrilegious and yet if a dog’s untimely demise was enough to provoke such violent behavior, we would be nothing but a world full of John Wicks. And would that be such a vile idea?
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