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2Martin Scorsese
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Taxi Driver
1976Martin Scorsese
On every street in every city, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
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Drive
2011Nicolas Winding Refn
There are no clean getaways.
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The Fifth Element
1997Luc Besson
There is no future without it.
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Speed Racer
2008Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
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Taxi Driver and the Danger of Letting Alienation Curdle Into Mission
Scorsese’s landmark stays unnerving because it never treats Travis Bickle as a puzzle to solve. It traps us inside a worldview rotting in real time.
Drive and the Thin Line Between Cool and Disappearance
Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir holds because it turns style into a form of loneliness rather than a layer painted on top of the story.