You're certainly entitled to you opinion and I actually appreciate that you didn't really go on any sort of angst filled rant and gave an honest assessment on why you don't like the film. Having said that, I really do think you fail to realize just how awful 1970s NYC was. How depraved it was prior to sweeping law enforcement changes in the 1980s. This could actually be said of most of America's major metro centers in the mid to late 70s. So yes, it's a social commentary that when looked at through today's lens seems so very alien but for the time was a largely honest assessment by Scorsese on how far the city he loved had really fallen. Which brings me to a larger issue we have a society today which is that we all insist on only looking through the lens we have right now. Books, music, cinema, history -- so many of us only view these things through today's lens and when it doesn't line up we discard it. I offer up that we should instead consider evaluating those things both how the world is today and how the world was.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for the Hot Take!