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Title: Wishy washy as one can get.
Review: Martin Scorsese has said that he pulled the camera away from Travis Bickle as he talks to Betsy over the phone in "Taxi Driver" because it's just too embarrassing to watch. That sense of painful embarrassment pervades throughout the entirety of "The King of Comedy."It's a difficult film to applaud, but it's even more difficult to damn. "The King of Comedy" is one of those films that weeds out the less vigilant viewers among us. It's the story of an obsessive going after his desire--a career in comedy? Or just a moment of recognition?--in the most manic and unsympathetic ways possible. And it does so in meticulous (or you might say: slow) fashion. I felt that watching through to the end paid off--for me, the ending made the whole thing worth it. The thrill of the finale is thematic: it's not the conclusion to the story, but the question raised that makes this film more than what it seems.Still, it doesn't seem like awful much.
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