Taxi Driver (1976)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Martin SCORSESE and Robert DE NIRO used to make a night out at the pictures a real, albeit often gloomy, treat. And Jodie FOSTER proves again she was the best and most precocious child-actor of them all.

A Gothic horror of modern, White Western Man alienated from His own creation (His culture); manifesting the inevitable violence (a cry for help) springing from the resulting loneliness. A rare example of visual gruesomeness that could never work without it.

The true genius of this work is that you feel empathy for a murdering sociopath; if you didn't there’d be no real drama, only horror.

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The media here has no values, so it tends to raise non-achievers to the status of a "Somebody". A tragedy about human pain that's ultimately uplifting because to acknowledge anguish is to relieve it.

Brilliant in every way: One of the very best films ever made.

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