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If you look over Schrader's career, as writer or writer/director, it is a continual string of films that wallow in the dark side of life. Beginning with his work as the writer for Taxi Driver, writer/director of Blue Collar, writer/director of Hard Core, writer of Raging Bull, writer/director of American Gigolo and Light Sleeper, Schrader's ouevre contains narry an instance where he trod lightly in the garden of human failures and foibles.
When you deal so deeply in the inner, twisted, coils of banality and evil that lurk in the hearts of man, you really don't have a chance to lighten up. That is why I find watching movies that Schrader has a connection with to be some of the most disturbing events of my cinema-going life.
Affliction is yet another example of where Schrader takes super ordinary people and finds super dark pieces of their souls which he bares to the public, like some medieval king placing an opponent's head at the end of a spike.
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