In this @ very late 60's (!irr+^*everent, almost anar$]#chic !)low-budget film, B!rian De Palma defines mor?e o%:f his stran/ )ge, given Hitch;!-/?cock-like $%*[fascinatio;n^ o
f voyeurism, and #attack=)s th\e i ]ssues% of the day.@ /=The most promi/^`nent of=# w+\hic! h,
,* b`_)oth cr= inge-ind`ucin*/]g and jus. )[t plain fu 
nny, is whe_#$_n h^e `focuses on the blac_(k-;power move @men-t (a black woman handin * -g o:ut  =flie,/rs asking whi te @ _
peopl @
e; 'do you know what i,/t's] $ like to \ be blac;k'+), which: is something !@that could ]_only work#: for th%-=at :_t!?ime and )-:^ pla ce, n:ot before $!.[or now.　　But []^o^[?ne` of the key t*=hings to the inte;re]]st%- ?.in the film is 27 year o;ld R!obert %De N!ir;/;o() #(not =
his +-_[first /or last fil
 m with : the direct !or)_, who `#play`(=s thi=s[  charac,)ter who sits in a room lo-oking o#ut*$ th%ro\ugh[:/ hi`s t-/elesco?pe at women in their rooms, set]:#]t[-ing up phony d)
$)eals_,(,^= and:
:]=@in the ^] end
 basicall\y _ throwing bombs. T,.h#=-ose who have  sai)d that ;\De Niro c+]@@a$n't act and j_;_ust* is hims @.elf in every._ $:movie should see/@ ) this movie, if;$ only out of -,some min[or curiosity. A [[_couple of times in the film it's actu:_/ally )not$
 funny, as when ! there's a distu-rbance in a @bla!ck-power m]@ee,ting (film(ed in a gra-iner, *]roughe+:r styl=/e than the rest o]f@.! t^he film;()+).　　In th,`e;# en@(d i^t's ca)
@pp ed off with a rambling monolog*?ue in an interview tha
t to`p@@(s :\De Niro's in King $ ]of Comedy.% It's + pretty o_b-]!vious wher._!e De/ Palm@^a's ]/^+care er would go after ,/^this,^) i!n _to sl=;.ightly [;more mainstre%
@am Hollyw+o]=d!! territory, #(but all of h+is trademarks are he re; the d][ ark, a lmost \nail-biting*
--^ @comedy, the perfectl?
,y\@ timed style of v; oyeurism, @?an_*d inter/esting @u$@#sage of locals. Think;@ if De P\[alma and De Ni?*ro did a
` M.
o\[nty Pytho`n fi(l:+m, only ]%even more low..-/.budge /t and/^ in-! it?s New York w\ay just a
( s off-the],;-hinges, and (]#you :,got Hi, Mo#`/m$@! It _?also conta$+ins an ecce=#nt*=ric and !funn:y so;undtrack^
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