Definitely an all time career high for actor and director. One of the few movies I have ever seen that I cannot fault. Everything in this film is done for a reason, from the smallest character quirks De Niro applies to Travis, to Scorsese's seemingly arbitratry shots of odd street performers or passing Black Panther-esque hoods. I don't I've ever seen a horror movie that has disturbed me as intensely as Taxi Driver (that scene with the television set in his apartment, chills me to the core everytime), and no drama has sucked me into a character as utterly as I was with Travis Bickle.
Honestly, I can't praise it highly enough. It's between this, Dog Day Afternoon, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, A Clockwork Orange and The Godfather Pt. 1 as my favorite all time movie, and you know what, I think I'd count it as #1 even amongst those.
Originally posted by Evil Dead
In all fairness.........my parents were shitty too. My mother rented "I Spit on Your Grave" for me when I was 12 years old. I was a big horror fan.........she was at the video store and just grabbed it from the horror section without ever turning the box around and reading about the movie. She thought it was the normal Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St., Re-Animator, Hellraiser type movie.A good parent would have taken a bit more time to actually learn what the movie was about before renting it for their pre-teen child.
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haha, thats funny.
Did that experience break you?