Not exact matches
Released in the Bicentennial year, after Vietnam, Watergate, and
attention - getting attempts on President Ford's life,
Taxi Driver's intense portrait
of a man and a society unhinged spoke resonantly to the mid -»70s audience — too resonantly in the case
of attempted Reagan assassin and Foster fan John W. Hinckley.
But, if you're going far, pay
attention to the condition
of the
taxi - and the
driver.
Today, it would be easy to see her as a portraitist
of New York's canonised «culturati», but she painted hundreds
of the city's residents, treating
taxi drivers, kids, actors, and activists with the same candour and
attention.