Taxi Driver (1976)

• Year: 1976
• Released: 09 Feb 1976
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 4 Oscars. 22 wins & 20 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Taxi_Driver
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/taxi-driver-1976
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 2160p
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 114 min
• Writer: Paul Schrader
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd
• Keywords: new york city, neo-noir, obsession, drug dealer, vigilante,

	8.2/10
	94/100
	96% – Critics
	93% – Audience

Taxi Driver Storyline

Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. 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. He’s a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. 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.

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Disturbing Look into a Disturbed Mind

Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) is a disturbed ex-Marine Vietnam vet. He’s suffering from insomnia, and spends his nights driving a cab. He’s sexually perverted, and obsessed with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd). On top of it all, he wants to save 12 year old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).

DeNiro delivered one of the iconic performances of all times. Travis Bickle is one of the standards by which all performances are judged. Martin Scorsese is making a disturbing movie. It can be hard to watch at times. Scorsese uses his camera to maximum effect. As Bickle’s mind drift from his co-workers, Scorsese’s camera drift into the antacid fizzling in his glass. The grittiness of ’70s NY is all there. Jodie Foster is shocking. Trying to watch Bickle can be a very trying experience. It isn’t an easy movie. But it is a masterpiece.

A classy character study of a disturbed individual—but what is the point?

Insomniac Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job driving a New York taxi cab, becomes obsessed with beautiful political campaigner Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), who gives him the cold shoulder after he tries to take her to a skin flick on a date. Bickle then becomes obsessed with underage hooker Iris (Jodie Foster), buys lots of guns, and goes trigger happy on her pimp (Harvey Keitel).

As a fan of gritty 70s movie-making, I find it hard to believe that, until now, I hadn’t seen Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver; I think perhaps the problem was that, having heard so many good things about the film, I didn’t want to risk disappointment. Unfortunately, that’s precisely what I felt when I finally got around to watching the film.

It’s not that it’s a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination—on the contrary, it’s a skilfully assembled character study of a self-destructive loose cannon that boasts excellent cinematography, great music, and superb performances—BUT in the end it just didn’t grab me as much as I would have liked. The story progresses very slowly, which in itself isn’t a massive issue for me, but the payoff simply isn’t as satisfying as I felt it needed to be given all that has gone before.

After all of his stalking, inane rambling and meticulous planning, Travis Bickle’s rampage is over in a flash, after which he is proclaimed a hero and freed to roam the streets once more (unless you prescribe to the theory that everything after the shootout is in Bickle’s mind as he slowly bleeds to death). Perhaps Scorsese’s point was to show us just how easy it is for a dangerous loony like Bickle to be overlooked by society until its too late—but it sure felt like a letdown to me.

6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for Keitel’s hair.

It’s very violent and unpleasant…though well made.

Some movies just confuse me. They have fabulous reputations but I find them difficult to like due to their excessive and pointless violence. Well, I may just be “out of touch”, since this movie is in the top 50 on IMDb ratings. However, I also worry that this film and other ultra-violent films like SCARFACE (the Pacino version) are adored by so many. We live in a violent world–that’s a fact. And, I wonder how much of that violence is either exacerbated by it or it encourages good people to become desensitized to violence or even find it exciting. I hope to think I am better than that.

Now I am not saying that there weren’t some really good elements to the movie and it was very well made. But, the film is so thoroughly soaked in violence and human waste that the good is grossly overshadowed. Just because the people De Niro kills at the end are bad guys doesn’t mean it is entertaining or less offensive. Regardless, these sort of films are not something I enjoy.