Yo Mom! You Talkin' To Me?, 5 June 2003 Author: Daniel Vargas (BritishGangsterTimRoth) from Sâ,o Paulo, Brazil Lurking beneath the humor of director Brian De Palma's irreverent breakthrough comedy is the politically charged suggestion that, in an already hyped-up environment, Vietnam vets may not be so easily re-assimilated to the home front. The main character of Rubin is something of a precursor to star Robert De Niro's ultra-violent, ultra-alienated Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver"(1976). Independently producted , and shot for very little money on location in the Village, the film has a loose narrative structure and apt dowtown details that give it a keen feel for the counterculture milieu on which it comments. More a cult favorite than a mainstream success, the film spotlights De Palma's visual smarts and interest in media voyeurism, and De Niro's off-Kilter Rubin, retrospectively making "Hi, Mom!" a clever forerunner of the subquent '70s work of both men.The movie includes a soberb soundtrack focusing all socials problems and making fun of them.