Hoskins from the window seat down to the cellar ("canal") for burial, according to a pre-arranged plan with his aunts.The film was a superb re-envisioning of the insightful Nicholas Ray, Eisenhower-Era melodrama about the family,Bigger Than Life (1956)- hat also critiqued the suffocating and claustrophobic conformity of 1950s middle-class life in an earlier era.You""re caught between two sides, aren""t you?"), but assured him he wasn""t immediately going to prosecute: ("I""m not going to put any of your folks behind the bars just yet").Personnel Officer: Military record?Bickle: Honorable discharge, May 1973.Personnel Officer: Were you in the Army?Bickle: Marines.Personnel Officer: I was in the Marines, too.So what is it? You need an extra job? Are you moonlighting?Bickle: Well I, I just want to work long hours.