... be generalized at the end of the fifties. Second the flashback, which is a recurrent technique in the " film noir", isn't used at all in the Scorcese's Movie for reasons of narrative structure: Taxi Driver is the linear time story of a step by step sinking of it's main protagonist. And finally the defect of the two main archetypal figures of the genre ... it's writer, Paul Schrader, to make a good "film noir", it can be definitely considered as an offspring of the genre but Scorcese pushes it's movie further by using elements and techniques of other film genre and by hiding in it a load...

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