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Ep646: Late Screening: TAXI DRIVER

Published: March 23, 2021, 2:13 a.m.

Yeah, we're talkin' to you! This month's "Late Screening" takes Ian and Cole on a wild ride through the mean streets of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

The iconic, gritty drama turns 45 this year, but its relevance as a film and as a hard-hitting societal critique is as striking as ever. Robert DeNiro stars as Travis Bickle, a disturbed Viet Nam vet whose social alienation, political disillusionment, and disgust at societal decay erupts in one of cinema's most unsettling climaxes.

This was a first-time watch for Cole, and the first time Ian had watched Taxi Driver through adult eyes. Watch as the guys lament DeNiro's lack of electricity in future roles; marvel at Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader's ability to elicit complicated sympathies for a monster, and plant the seeds for the Clarice Starling Cinematic Universe (it'll all make sense by the end)!

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