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In this very late 60s irreverent almost anarchic lowbudget film Brian De Palma defines more of his strange given Hitchcocklike fascination of voyeurism and attacks the issues of the day The most prominent of which both cringeinducing and just plain funny is when he focuses on the blackpower movement a black woman handing out fliers asking white people do you know what its like to be black which is something that could only work for that time and place not before or now But one of the key things to the interest in the film is 27 year old Robert De Niro not his first or last film with the director who plays this character who sits in a room looking out through his telescope at women in their rooms setting up phony deals and in the end basically throwing bombs Those who have said that De Niro cant act and just is himself in every movie should see this movie if only out of some minor curiosity A couple of times in the film its actually not funny as when theres a disturbance in a blackpower meeting filmed in a grainer rougher style than the rest of the film In the end its capped off with a rambling monologue in an interview that tops De Niros in King of Comedy Its pretty obvious where De Palmas career would go after this into slightly more mainstream Hollywood territory but all of his trademarks are here the dark almost nailbiting comedy the perfectly timed style of voyeurism and interesting usage of locals Think if De Palma and De Niro did a Monty Python film only even more lowbudget and in its New York way just as offthehinges and you got Hi Mom It also contains an eccentric and funny soundtrack imdb comment