November 09, 1990 (vol. 101, iss. 48) • Page Image 8
…Page 8 -The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 9, 1990 Since Taxi Driver's release, Martin Scorsese's fulminating study of psychopathic redemption in scum- laden, grease-slicked New York has been invoked as an example of vio- lence in film and the influence of the medium (note: John Hinckley). Yet its best moments are either non-vio- lent or merely allude to violence. Travis Bickle's (Robert DeNiro) vi- sion of the rain-smeared New York City s...…