FALLING DOWN: While clearly not a golfing film, or even a sports movie, Falling Down, which follows the mental and emotional breakdown of Foster, an unemployed engineer who is trying to get across LA on foot to make it to his daughter’s birthday at his ex-wife’s house. As things begin to go awry for Forster (brilliantly played by Michael Douglas), he resorts to more extreme and violent ‘solutions’ to the predicaments in which he finds himself. To keep in line with our golf theme, one of the most memorable scenes is when Foster is making his way across a fairway in an attempt to get closer to his destination. “Just passing through,” he says politely when a rich member hollers at him to “get off my hole”. Things quickly turn sour after the oldie aims a golf shot at Foster, who shoots at the golfer’s buggy, which rolls away into a lake with the golfer’s pills on board, just as said golfer starts having a heart attack. “Now you’re going to die wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?” A clear commentary on the ills in society, Falling Down certainly puts some golfers in their place along the way, with more than a pinch of dark humour.
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