Hello, Mike. This is Yuto.
Falling Down talks about a man, D-Fens, who was just been fired by his company and wants to go home to celebrate his daugther's birthday, but his ex-wife ask him to stay
away from them. Everything is going wrong with him. Heavy traffic,noisy,the shop keeper's bad behavior,and the gansters want to kill him, that makes him crazy against society. The another man in this movie is Prendergast, who has a similar family situation to D-fens,they both have wife and daughter. And nobody respects them.
But the difference between D-fens and Prendergast is how they deal with the same situation.D-fens chose to revenge the society. Whereas Prendergast chooses to protect it. They both have wife and daughter, the diffenent is D-fens's daughther still alives,but his wife hate him and ask him to stay away . And Prendergast's was dead and he wanted to protect his wife ,that why he wanted to retired earlier.
In my opinon ,this movie want to inflect the true situation of the society,it wants us to face to the reality and justice.At that time, the society was very unfair and this movie showed the true situation to us.
Teacher's note: I fixed some of the format issues. Please present proper structure. I like how you focus deep into the details of the similarities and differences! --Mike www.moviesgrowenglish.com