Schrader knows this world of insomnia, craving, and addiction. And he knows all about people living in a cocoon of themselves. Light Sleeper is the third in his trilogy about alienated night workers, after Taxi Driver (he wrote the screenplay, Martin Scorsese directed) and American Gigolo, about a man who supplies sex at great cost to himself. Now comes this story about the man who delivers drugs. There are many parallels in the three films; all involve the men in misguided efforts to save or connect with a self-destructive woman, and all end in violence. But, perhaps because he is growing
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