I saw French movies like this.
It's not a "story" grounded in reality, but more like a fairly tail.
The French movies, such as Breathless, were about lost people with nothing to do because modern society has no exciting challenges. So, you get people wandering around with no personality other than what they got from the media.
A guy like Travis, 500 years ago, or whatever, would have been in the military, out in the wilderness trying to make some kind of life and fighting for it. However, in modern times you do some boring job and allows no sense of pride and accomplishment.
In addition, we don't have heroes protecting the village, fighting bears, or whatever. So, some "crazy person" who kills some pimps and rescues a child prostitute by murdering a bunch of people is awesome.
So, the movie is a comment on a society that is kind of dead, but doesn't know it.
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