Falling Down (1993)

In the early 1990s a phrase arose: going postal. It has kind of faded out of use because recent years mass shootings have involved a wide arrange of people that typically go in and attack schools. Back in the 1990s, however, there were a number of times when people just snapped, with the most visible being disgruntled postal workers. In fact, that is where most of the American population learned the word "disgruntled" from. The phrase arose in a dark-humored manner and there is certainly plenty of dark humor in Falling Down . What many of these situations had in common, though, was someone who came in, did their shift and did what they were told, suddenly snapped once everything started falling apart in their lives. The targets were sometimes malls and restaurants, but often it was their former co-workers and managers. In many cases it was older white males who felt betrayed because they felt they had followed the rules and, for whatever reason, the society they served