Around 1h16min mark, the camera is focused on the “down(?) with pigs” and peace symbol graffitis on the wall, goes to the killer than pans to his belt buckle and hangs there for a couple of seconds
Does the belt buckle mean anything? What are your thoughts on it?
Perhaps I’m missing some context, like I had with the dialogue “my friends call me Alice”:
Obstacles like due process and legal evidence. What kind of a monster would insist on those things? /s
Well-meaning idiots, in Wayne’s parlance, and I doubt very much that Eastwood’s philosophy differs that much. Unsurprisingly, the ideological bent of the film was a topic of some controversy, even during its release. The term “fascist” was thrown around with the frequency of a Lemmy politics thread, and not without good reason. For their part, the director claimed that he was a left leaning liberal who viewed Callahan as “as evil, in his own way, as [Scorpio]”, and Eastwood, while denying the movie was right wing, stated it was about “frustration with the judicial system”.
Suffice to say, the politics of these movies are complicated (at best), if you choose to engage with them on that level.