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It's probable that Connelly thought of Taxi Driver and Mean Streets (1973) when he wrote his novel, so having it adapted by Schrader and Scorsese was like closing the circle.
As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.
Having written Taxi Driver (1976) and Hardcore (1979) and other vigilante pictures in which the underlying motives of the avenger are called into question, Schrader embraced the story of a vigilante who turns out to be dead wrong, driven mad by an increasing sense of his own impotence in a world that has left him behind.
It doesn't help that the waxen, bug-eyed Dafoe inhabits a different universe from the other actors, an effect that Schrader intended but that would have worked better with someone else--Dafoe always acts as if he has beamed down from a Martian theater troupe.
Movies like 8MM make me appreciate what Paul Schrader tried to do when he chose to bring Russell Banks' novel Affliction to the screen.