De Niro is utterly believable as the lonely night worker at odds with the city and its vices. His reasoning guides the film narrative; his words characterize the world in our mind and we become sympathetic to his subjective interpretations.
Scorsese's direction, De Niro's anti-hero and Bernard Herrmann's last ever score were a match made in film heaven. Essential viewing,
5 bouts of insomnia out of 5
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ReplyDeleteCouldn't have said it better.
5 all the way.
5 signs that say organazized for me.
ReplyDeleteI took the Movie Theater Time Machine back to 1976 tonight and finally got to experience this on the big screen. It was the perfect setting on my way there; dark and rainy, I could see wisps of smoke and hear the faint strains of jazz playing in the background. The theater itself was half-filled with a bunch of low-life creeps like me. It remains one of the quintessential lonely/vigilante movies of all time.
ReplyDelete5 sideway glances into the rearview mirror out of 5