Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication

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

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

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.

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The movie is thoroughly a product of Seventies sensibility: the integrity of things as they already stand, the presentation of a text as a concrete object, and out-front admission of the means of production.

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?