Decadence of modern society

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2004)

Oh, i am not a professional movie critic and know nothing about movie directing. But this movie is intriguing, because of its laconic messages and the admirable performance of Robert de Niro. This is really a movie of t he seventieth, AT A TIME, when american society was asking some crucial questions to himself. Are we the best of societies? Do we everything right? Have we to be better than that?
No, I will not tell spoilers of the movie, to be blacklisted(Re´membering me of something). But the Focus of the movie is not the Life in 1970s New York, but the mental Status of the "Hero", Robert de Niro, a Vietnam Vet. Unlike "Forrest Gump", there is no Redemption for this Hero. He has to go to through his personal hell, like he presumably did in Vietnam, now in his "safe Homecountry". And he will not find the mental peace , he needed. Of course, other movies focused on these plot, but never were these conflict documented so intense, or was the acting so soulshaking as in this movie. Apart from being a great of the time(One of the first 1970s US movies, I saw in Germany) , its a timeless jewel of american movie history.