Hi, Mom! (1970)
Country: US
Technical: Movielab 86m
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Allen Garfield, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Synopsis:
A home movie enthusiast rents an apartment opposite a new block of flats and attempts to market and manufacture Peeping Tom films to a porn producer. When this fails he joins a radical black theatre group that terrorizes its audience, and finally becomes a pillar of the community as cover for some terrorism of his own.
Review:
Very much an early work, with the director showing both the satirical edge (Phantom of the Paradise) and the preoccupation with voyeurism (Body Double, et al.) of his later films. What is remarkable, besides the no-concessions revue structure of the work and its rebarbative presentation, is the fact that here we have a trial run for the Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver in all but name: De Niro playing a social misfit with a penchant for porno movies who ultimately lashes out against society with violence (remember Travis's near assassination attempt) and this time adopts the guise of the Vietnam vet.
Country: US
Technical: Movielab 86m
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Allen Garfield, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Synopsis:
A home movie enthusiast rents an apartment opposite a new block of flats and attempts to market and manufacture Peeping Tom films to a porn producer. When this fails he joins a radical black theatre group that terrorizes its audience, and finally becomes a pillar of the community as cover for some terrorism of his own.
Review:
Very much an early work, with the director showing both the satirical edge (Phantom of the Paradise) and the preoccupation with voyeurism (Body Double, et al.) of his later films. What is remarkable, besides the no-concessions revue structure of the work and its rebarbative presentation, is the fact that here we have a trial run for the Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver in all but name: De Niro playing a social misfit with a penchant for porno movies who ultimately lashes out against society with violence (remember Travis's near assassination attempt) and this time adopts the guise of the Vietnam vet.
Country: US
Technical: Movielab 86m
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Allen Garfield, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Synopsis:
A home movie enthusiast rents an apartment opposite a new block of flats and attempts to market and manufacture Peeping Tom films to a porn producer. When this fails he joins a radical black theatre group that terrorizes its audience, and finally becomes a pillar of the community as cover for some terrorism of his own.
Review:
Very much an early work, with the director showing both the satirical edge (Phantom of the Paradise) and the preoccupation with voyeurism (Body Double, et al.) of his later films. What is remarkable, besides the no-concessions revue structure of the work and its rebarbative presentation, is the fact that here we have a trial run for the Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver in all but name: De Niro playing a social misfit with a penchant for porno movies who ultimately lashes out against society with violence (remember Travis's near assassination attempt) and this time adopts the guise of the Vietnam vet.