dark

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2010)

This film is dark. Its depressing. Its unsettling. Its violent and brutal. Its real. This film captures a desperate realism perfectly. Everything feels natural yet at the same time unsettling. This is a world we don't want to live in but we all live in it. We don't want to live in this world but we do and there's no escaping it. Thats exactly what Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) tries to do. He's not a hero, not by any means. This is an incredibly sick man who somehow manages to kind of maybe do something "good". The whole film is just twisted and unsettling. We watch Bickles decent into madness. DeNiro is perfection. He is so good in this movie. Harvey Keitel is brilliant in his smaller role as a pimp. Their scenes together are some of the best in the film. Even when DeNiro is alone his acting is incredible. The camera work is flashy but in a detached and bleak sense. Scorsese gives it his all. This is a film that doesn't feel cut, it flows from one scene to the next. There is nothing bad I can say about this film. Its just perfect