There are many films that are out that compare to Aristotle’s Poetics. One of these films is The Punisher. The punisher is an excellent example of a perfect tragedy due to the many elements it has that Aristotle’s Poetics describes.
This film was directed by Jonathan Hensleigh and was released April 16, 2004. The film opens with an arms deal taking place Tampa Bay, Florida. Bobby Saint and Micky Duka meet with their contact, Otto Krieg, to provide him with the payments, but at the last moment, the FBI intervenes, resulting to the death of Bobby and Otto and the imprisonment of Duka. However, it is revealed that Otto Krieg is in fact a FBI agent, Frank Castle, who was undercover and was shot by an agent using blanks. It then transpires that Bobby Saint is the son of the ruthless mob boss, Howard Saint, who is enraged by the death of his son. Saint and his associate, Quentin Glass, bribe the FBI to provide them with confidential information about Otto Krieg, who brokered the arms deal, and find out his true identity. At Bobby's funeral, Saint learns that Castle is at a family reunion in Puerto Rico and will be heading for London, England soon. He requests that Castle be killed, but at the last moment, Saint's wife, Livia, demands that they murder Castle's entire family as well. At the reunion, Saint's associates, Quentin Glass and John Saint kill all of Castle's family. Castle himself survives the massacre and is nursed back to health by a local man named Candelaria. Castle takes refuge in an old tenement building where three young outcasts named, Dave, Bumpo and Joan live. There, he starts his own mission of revenge, especially after learning that the police and the FBI, even five months after his family's murder, have no intention of pursuing the men responsible. In the process, Castle sabotages Saint's money laundering business and severs Saint's partnership with the Cuban mobsters. Saint realizes that Castle is alive, and sends two assassins to kill him....