With all of the various gritty and disturbing things that go on in Martin Scorcese's classic from 1976, it's easy to forget that it has a political foundation in the action that advances the plot in a very specific way. Without the Presidential campaign, the film would not be the film that it is. I used to get irritated by this, because I really wanted to see more of the underbelly stuff that involves Iris and Sport (Jodi Foster and Harvey Keitel, respectively).
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