Abel Ferrara, post-pornographer, watching Taxi Driver: I can do that...

And he did.

A weird fucking movie. Jesus. You can smell the street vagrant's alcoholic vomit stain the walkway, or the smokey, sweat drenched clubs hosting the gutter-echo vibrancy of The Rooster's No Wave thumping, or the plastic paint high that kills the human olfactory system with one brush at a time; let's not forget the crunch and the zing of the dreaded "Drilling", made mobile with the one and…

Oh boy...

Controversial? sure.

Pretentious? nah.

Unique? yes.

Intense? undeniably.

Scary? not the scary you're thinking of.

Good? very.

Once you get the metaphor, the message is straight forward. But it doesn't bash you over the head with it (unlike what some people think). Aronofsky is just telling it as it is, through his own interpretation of the story. I think it's quite brilliant, the way he pulled it off.

I would like to Highly Recommend this film, but it…

I wish that I was alive when Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, hit theaters. It was a completely original, special effects heavy B-movie that took everyone by surprise. A commercial success. The people's choice. A movie for everyone, old or young, with no strings attached...

That will never, ever happen again.

Whether it be today, tomorrow, or as long as we travel the path that we're currently on in the verse of cinema. That will never happen again.

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