It is certainly one of the most courageous and passionate portraits of the American
underbelly ever put on film, a movie bathed in blood as much as in light, and revisiting the film on its Blu - ray debut, mastered from the brand new digital restoration currently making the rounds on the
festival and repertory cinema circuit, only confirms the power of the film to, after all these years, sink the audience into the mind and filthy, fetid world of Travis Bickle.