Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.
Direction
De Palma's split-screen peeping tom sequences are pure cinematic mischief.
Acting
De Niro's deadpan delivery sells the absurdity perfectly.
Director
Brian De Palma
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