9º – Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
A taxi driver finds himself more and more immersed in an unpleasant reality on New York nights. Little by little, the man, wrapped in a solitary routine, begins to lose contact with reality, putting his mental health at risk. Belonging to Martin Scorsese’s cinema, ‘Taxi Driver’ lists a wide range of negative events present in humanity, giving a negative look even to eventual heroes of the plot.
8º – Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Simple in its proposal, the plot exposes the figures of two young men in their erratic journeys around the world. We will destroy the way men treat the social apparatus, repelling any form of common exchange with other individuals. ‘Naked’ is a nihilistic hymn about individuals incapable of obtaining pleasure in their onslaughts in the world, and, when they reach light specters of it, it is only possible by harming other people.
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