I think it’s an excellent film and widely misunderstood. And I also think it is OK to hate it or at least what it represents.
By misunderstood I think people expect it to be a black comedy or a power fantasy. There is a sense of schadenfreude in the film as the main character compounds each poor decision and breaks further from reality. And the film tries to tell us that we’re only one bad day away from a breakdown of civil behavior, which I don’t really agree with but that seems to be the message.
I think Treed Murray is another film in the same sort of genre of bad choices and the fragility of civil behavior. But it’s less ambiguous and easier to understand than Falling Down.
