I had seen it when it first came out. I knew I liked it then. A triumph of Job-like good over Satanic-like evil. The love of a good woman to inspire the wronged man is the sub-story. The vengeance finally wrought is understood not so much as getting even, as it is undertaking a necessary evil in order to restore reasonable quality and normality to life. It's perhaps a clever bit of foreshadowing that the wife is studying for a college exam at the start of the movie, and the practice question her husband presents is about "punctuated equilibrium", a theory of evolution in which mutations occur in a sudden reaction to various environmental conditions, rather than in a gradually unfolding manner. The successful implementation of abrupt, unlikely, and unexpected actions, not in the protagonist's heretofore familiar character, are perceived by the protagonist as necessary for survival.
The acting and perhaps directing or writing is at times a bit cheesy, but this doesn't detract from the overall impressive effect of the story.
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Uppity: My Untold Story about the Games People Play by Bill White 2011 Hardcover