Episode 57: HARD TARGET (1993)

The rich hunt the poor for sport. The cops are on strike. The veterans are all out of work. Natasha Binder needs to find her estranged father. Chance Boudreaux needs $217 to pay his union dues. The realities of a one-sided class war meet the fantasies of New Orleans ultraviolence in HARD TARGET, John Woo’s first American production. The rich can afford to take human lives with impunity; the well-to-do can afford to pay the poor to stop them; and the poor can only afford to die. As the cycle is upended (thanks to some Cajun kickass-meets-Hong Kong balletic bliss), so too are the roles of predator and prey reversed, exposing the imbalance of wealth politics and sympathetic tools used to suppress the disenfranchised in America and around the world. Recommended media: - The White Stripes – “Conquest” - MAFIA III (2016) - BURNING (2018) - COBRA (1986) Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.