Killing Of America (DVD)

Co-written by Leonard Schrader, this deeply unsettling, morally ambiguous shockumentary melange of genuine - and genuinely disturbing - documentary footage and social commentary serves almost as a justification for the actions of Travis Bickle in brother Paul Schrader's Taxi Driver. A bleak, uncompromising film that, despite sharing generic traits (and several sequences) with the likes of Faces Of Death, True Gore and what not, has more in common with Herman, Kumar and Monaghan's impassioned, thoughtful 1995 British production Executions. Like the latter, The Killing Of America parades its grotesqueries (sundry assassinations, beatings, slaughters...) in the service of a ...