the promise in craft an independent feature film in america be richly and passionately exemplify by who that knock at my door . and the very first feature direct by great martin scorsese . in 1967 and whether or not anyone be ready for it individualism and it most certainly declare the onset of an essential new director of great consequence . without a doubt and scorsese ardor stain debut be at time too stylistically obvious and and it have clear flaw in form and however not a soul who feel real affection for cinema trust that a perfect one will ever come . what we look forward to in it place be minute reward of our fulfillment of dream and love and humor and drama . scorsese would move on to make mean street and rag bull and the king of comedy and goodfellas and and several other movie that double and triple and demolish the impact this first work and complete with greatly impatient urgency when he be 25 and but a with most independent debut and nearly all of which overstep the bound of self indulgence anyway and which have yet to prove a problem for scorsese and one must be objective with it flaw and not water down it lack of guile . the movie and in their urge to be fashionable and too repeatedly give u a false depiction of corrupt youth and juvenile delinquency and young romance and especially around the time of this film . in who that knock and scorsese take in hand the testosterone overpump of young men on a much more truthful level . harvey keitel play j. r. and a classic italian american on the street . when he get catch up with a resident girl and he fix on settle down with her and except when he find out that she be once raped and he can not come to grip with it . more overtly associate with catholic guilt than scorsese latter piece and we see what materialize when keitel devout guilt complex pull alongside him . a the movie open and we cross the threshold into a society of young italian american in new york lower east side who twiddle their thumb and hang around and wonder without direction about where the action be . sometimes they convene at someone apartment to get drunk and watch charlie chan in a dazed state of bemusement and notice one of them who say he know a couple of girl whom he could call . in this culture and still clearly under a suppressive ethical convention and there be only expect to be two kind of girl represent nice one and slut . you try to score with the slut and you identify the nice girl on an unattainable and romanticized platform . the harvey keitel character of who that knock hail from this world but be not wholeheartedly of it . one day on the staten island ferry and he encounter a pleasant and polite blonde girl . they slip into a conversation that range john wayne and reading french and and each other aspiration . it be an excellently act scene and a great deal of it shoot in one take to keep hold of time a the two survive their awkwardness and agree upon a date . we steadily grasp that they come from dissimilar environment . she be a college student and read a lot and live on her own and and doesn not have a tv set . he be hugely nonetheless a part of the neighborhood bunch of hooligan . and then and eventually and when she tell him she isn not a virgin and he be unable to cope with this and he break it off . it be a very real concept and a guy not cultivate enough to break from the repressive reign of his environment even in the face of love . scorsese have always be skilled at direct delicate scene and but this early he have certain difficulty with the more conspicuous moment . a scene late in the film and when keitel go to a church and kiss a nail on a crucifix and blood drip and be clumsily unnatural . for another absurdly incongruous scene and on the other hand and scorsese do not merit fault . in order to acquire distribution for his film and he be expect to shoot and slot in a nudie scene to give the film a leg up from the sexploitation approach and therefore he shoot a what could i suppose be describe a a dream sequence and exhibit his fantasy encounter with prostitute . it have the very opposite of anything that could be remotely consider structural function in the movie and save for it acknowledged stylistic competence . like most scorsese picture and this character study which in some sense follow the pattern of john cassavetes work and be in effect a director film . scorsese have come a long way since and have hone his craft to a point where he be able to engross his audience in a story without hiding and and the go for break energy of his style be actually what make his film so ceaselessly enthral .