After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. The final scene still appears today as extremely violent, but at least, it shows murder for what it is. As a piece of American cinema history, this film will live forever. It didn't cause those things. This is less a film about a character in development as it is a kind of snapshot. The story doesn't end when the credits roll.
The sheer minimalism of his performance is just stunning. The potential criminal becomes a hero for a day. It continues today in the cities and in the schools. That it is a masterpiece, it is. But the story doesn't end with Travis either. This music and the slow camera showing the streets help to introduce the spectator into the world of Travis, to know what he is thinking about.
One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew. This film has the privilege of having made famous the sentence You talking' to me? Dia bergegas keluar dari restoran untuk menjemput orang asing itu. According to the Korean Films Commission, came in 1st of the Box Office with a record of 82,083 viewers on the 21st and an accumulated viewership of 2,306,993,. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. Travis Bickle is a lonely, impotent and insomniac ex-marine, who spends his nights driving his taxi throughout the shadowy streets of mid-70's New York City. As for Jodie Foster, she already appeared in films as a child, but playing a teenage prostitute was certainly not an easy challenge, and probably it was that role that really turned her into a major actress.
But far more important than that, this film will survive as a universal, ever-relevant examination of the workings of the alienated mind. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the city's boroughs. Travis is an misunderstood guy who is seeking desperately for some kind of company because as he says 'loneliness has followed me all my life, everywhere' but at the same time he seems not to do anything to avoid his situation and it is seen when he goes with Betsy Cybill Shepherd to a porn cinema. The directing is first class and deservedly made path for Scorsese as a world renowned artist. By contrast, the few daylight scenes look somewhat off-key, but this was definitely intentional. It is something one tends to forget about after seeing so many police series where people get shot so often that it gets casual. The film fools you on a first viewing.
It is director 's first commercial movie,. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. And I am, clearly, not the only one who reacts to the film this way that is why it lends itself to endless speculation and discussion. His objective is to finish with the scum of the streets. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine.
The story uses a taxi driver as a metaphor of loneliness and it has some kind of irony because we can see that a city which is full of people can be the most lonely place for a man. The film is about the brutal power of the disaffected mind. He becomes obsessed with her. But Travis's personality sees him being unable to connect with virtually anyone, until he becomes infatuated with a blonde campaign worker named Betsy and then later meets an adolescent prostitute named Iris. Shepard's character, Betsy, is little more than a foil to highlight Travis's utter alienation from society, but she is still impeccably portrayed. Comments which break the rules will be moderated or erased. Travis never once enters into a meaningful relationship with any character anywhere in the film.
His actions aren't rational because he isn't rational. In general I cannot say any negative aspect of this film because I have not found anything bad. Dia butuh uang untuk membayar uang sewanya. We know Travis will snap again. Is that what the slow moving overhead tracking shot suggests? He becomes obsessed with her.
It is too disturbing a picture precisely because it is way too close to reality, it cuts too close to the bone for my comfort or rather, discomfort. Tremendous supporting roles are brought to life through vivid performances by Keitel and Foster especially. Year: 1976 Vote : 8. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this movie moving picture is worth a million words, which is why it has probably generated at least a million words. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. Her daughter Jung-in decides to defend her mother and reveal the truth behind the case.