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So 'Affliction' is depressing, huh? NO SHIT, JACKSON! Look at Paul Schrader's resume for a second, what else could you possibly expect; Taxi Driver (loner goes on kill spree) Rolling Thunder (Vietnam vets go on kill spreee) Mishima (homosexual Japanese novelists goes commits public suicide) etc. etc. Everybody knows that Schrader is one seriously damaged crate of goods. I just finished reading "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" and from the portrait Peter Biskind paints of him, I'm suprised he hasn't taken potshots from a rooftop yet; he grew up in a super-strict Calvanist household, didn't get to see a movie until he was 19, and when he got to Hollywood his favorite pastime was playing Russian Roulette in the hot tub. Let's all just give thanks that the guy hasn't punched his own ticket yet and is instead still making provacative motion pictures.
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