Taxi Driver
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Submitted by mrw824 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver
" Is Travis Bickle a hero?"
I believe in the film Taxi Driver, director Martin Scorese explores the psychological madness within an obsessed, twisted, inarticulate, lonely, "anti - hero" cab driver Travis Bickle, who misdirectedly lashes out with frustrated anger at the world that has alienated him, as he redemptively prepares to "wash all this scum off the streets.". His psychological unhinging is paired with an attempt to rescue a young prostitute from her predatory pimp. Historically, the film appeared after a decade of war in Vietnam, and after the disgraceful Watergate crisis. In many ways, the film has become prophetic and mirrors the violence of contemporary news headlines. Notoriously, the film is linked to and may have triggered the political assassination (copy-cat) attempt by John Hinckley on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, illuminating his dangerous fixation on actress Jodie Foster ( Iris, in the film) and resulting in the assassin's infamous "media - hero" status.
In a droning voice - over, he narrates cynically from the tattered journal he keeps, throughout different scenes in the film. Through these "journal entries" we see signs of major psychological problems. For example in one of the first entries he seems to be disgusted by a world of urban decay and sleaziness that he believes should be raged against and washed away. He says; " All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.". After transporting late - night passengers who subscribe to the pleasure principle, Travis models his own behavior after theirs....
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