Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Taxi Driver

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Topic

Authoritarianism Decadence

Speaker

Travis Bickle

Actor

Robert De Niro

Source

Taxi Driver

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Crime (film) Crime

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

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