swivet

When this movie’s going right, it makes the spectator aware not only of repetitiousness but of the actual duration of a commonplace act.

What’s really disgusting about Taxi Driver is not the multifaced loner but the endless propaganda about the magic of guns.

soporific

pestiferous

dyspeptic

(“cliche is in a sense the purest art of intelligibility: it tempts us with the possibility of enclosing life with beautifully inalterable formulas, of obscuring the arbitrary nature of imagination with an appearance of necessity” is a Leo Bersani quote which appears twice in Rainer’s Film

Why is all the attention going toward the De Niro charm as a displaced country boy who is out of his depth, unless the authors are obsessed by Industry staples?

The point isn’t that people don’t have many sides to their character, but that the filmmakers, going for hot and heavy scores, bend the material for spiking effects.