Taxi Driver
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My Review
A Vietnam-scarred insomniac drifts through the neon gutters of ’70s New York, convinced the only cure for the city’s rot is a bullet. What begins as a lonely cabbie’s diary cruising at night, scribbling in his journal, failing at romance , mutates into a fever dream of violence. Travis Bickle’s slow descent isn’t loud, it’s a quiet corrosion, measured in the grime on his windshield and the lies he tells himself. When the final bloodbath arrives, the horror isn’t that he survives , it’s that the city applauds him for it. Scorsese turns revenge into a mirror: the more Travis tries to clean the streets, the more we see how filthy everything else is.
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**Social outcast with a mohawk goes nutzoid** Porn obsessed loner, Travis Bickle, is a cabbie in New York. The story tells of his gradual descent into madness brought on by his inability to relate to those around him and a feeling of a lack of worth. Travis is essentially invisible - of no importance. Walton's self imposed isolation preferable to getting along with the scum around him. One day...
Read full review →Taxi Driver has had many things said about it, and I don't wish to add to all that but it is the yardstick I measure all other films by, it is by far my favourite of all the films I have ever watched. It's brutal honesty and use of themes such as paranoia, mental health issues, and society degradation make it a film that has been imitated, and referenced since its opening in cinemas back in...
Read full review →Robert De Niro is outstanding in this dark and gritty depiction of former marine "Travis Bickle". He spends his time, alone, driving his cab at night then watching seedy movies during the day. This relentless cycle is broken when he takes a shine to "Betsy" (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign worker for a would be US Presidential candidate. There is a glimmer of hope for him, as she agrees to go out...
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