Posted on 05/06/2016 1:56:29 PM PDT by Borges
It’s a character study for grownups,
Wow! I guess you told me! Never realized that I am uneducated. Woe is me.
Hey you were the one bragging about how much you don’t know about American culture.
I said no such thing. American culture worthy of my time usually includes art, music, and literature. The movie industry has produced mostly trash during the last 40 years or so.
There are also no comedy or “drama” series on television that I follow. I wonder which insults this particular admission elicit from you.
I haven’t insulted you at all...just following up on what you said. Art, music, and literature is also ‘mostly trash’. The good stuff is always a minority and always will be. This film being in the latter category.
It's a character study for people who enjoy wallowing in nihilism, and then congratulate themselves on how sophisticated they are.
In other words, the quintessential NYC film.
It’s one of the most sophisticated films to become popular in the 70s. But it became popular for the wrong reasons. It was misunderstood enough to be perceived as a Thinking Man’s Death Wish. It has its roots in Distievsky and Bresson.
You: It’s one of the most sophisticated films to become popular in the 70s. ... It has its roots in Distievsky (Dostoevsky?)
QED
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