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Taxi Driver R

Scorses's masterpiece; an unflinching glimpse and meditation on the post-Nixon era in New York City where the political climate is as tense as the neurosis of it's inhabitants. The film's technique in bringing the viewer into the mind of Travis Bickle is effective in creating a viscereal experience while watching it; it's as though you are morphing into him, but not really. It's a great psychological case study of madness with the eventual redemption of reclaiming one's sanity as the footnote to vigilante prediliction; a hero is but a saint whose fall from grace is as tragic as the victim whom he saves.

Faces PG-13

This movie is the standard upon which all reality-based film-making today should be compared to -- nothing comes close to it. It was s-o-o ahead of it's time. The lead women characters / actresses are stunningly beautiful and embody that classical Hollywood beauty of old. But what stood out most for me about this film is the purity of substance in theme; of what is deemed as "a good time"; which consists of nothing more than people's company, some booze, and the non-existence of access to the internet.