What Is The Theme Of Taxi Driver

Josh is a 24 year-old man who is from West Chester, Pennsylvania. While he lives in PA for all of the show, his housing situation is not ideal. At the beginning of the episode he lives in a hotel room, however halfway through he is evicted. He moves back and forth between a friend’s house and his mom’s house, until he finally settles in an apartment building for people who struggle with mental illness. He has a part-time job in construction, and has little to no formal education. He seems to enjoy doing “laborer work”. Josh has also been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

A story is most powerful when it inspires the reader to believe that reading the story is “necessary”. In our textbook, there are three stories that hold true to this idea and follow the “Between Worlds” theme. These stories are, “A Cab Drivers Daughter” by Waheeda Samady, “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” by Martin Luther King Jr., and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. In “A Cab Drivers Daughter” a Pediatrician examines her life and the life of her father; she notes all the stereotypes and negativity that surrounds an immigrant driving a cab. This story shines light on the generation gap and cultural beliefs. Secondly, “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” is the explanation behind the ideology of the

First, the hitchhiker and the driver’s son have a lot in common. Both are trying to get

Most people are born with good hearts, but as they grow up they learn prejudices. “Crash” is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his wife, a racist cop and his younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian immigrant father, a Hispanic locksmith and his young

Unfortunately for Bickle, he is never able to get close enough to get to the candidate. After his plan completely fails, Bickle then begins to form an interest in saving a young 12-year-old prostitute by the name of Iris, played by Jodie Foster. In order to save her, Travis goes to the hotel that Iris works at and shoots her ‘pimp’ and murders him along with the hotel manager and the client of Iris. After seeing this film, Hinckley Jr. starts to form an obsession for Jodie Foster. He also began to believe that he saw himself in Travis Bickle. Hinckley Jr. was so infatuated with Taxi Driver that he saw the movie a total of fifteen times. He felt that in order to win Jodie Foster over, and to get her to even know he existed, was to assassinate the president of the United States. This would be the start of something that would lead to the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan.

Their father spent many years struggling to support a family in an overtly racist Northern urban community. Sonny, by contrast, is a romantic artist who is not afraid of taking risks to pursue the things he desires. His passion for music makes him impatient with everything else. He drops out of school; however, he does try to stay away from danger. Sonny does want to live a respectable life without corruption. He does several things to try to escape this corruption; he tries to escape by joining the military, but fails. He tries to escape by using illicit drugs and fails. When life seems to take a toll on Sonny he immerses himself in his music. He realizes that his problems are real and that he can 't truly escape them. Music becomes his life as he plays to transform his pain and suffering into something beautiful depicted in his jazz and blues music. Perhaps there is no way that we can absolutely stay out of danger, like Sonny 's father said, "there is no safe place for anyone" (Baldwin 95). Sonny 's music offers an outlet for expressing the darkness within him while giving his life meaning.

After explaining the feelings that come with leaving his family, causing him sometimes to feel as if he’ll explode without their love, he has an insight that plays into the religious aspect of the taxicab. “There is emotional safety in anonymity, he thought” (page 432). And while I’m not Catholic, I’ve noticed in movies

Travis troubles with relationships with others around him, and finally that situation ruins him, like attempts to assassinate a politician and massacre of pimps. Travis gradually gets his mental disorder, because of not only himself, but relationships with others around him. Although Travis thinks himself as a lonely man, he lives in New York, a metropolitan city, where filled with many others. Travis sometimes has communication with others around him, but such his awkward communication doesn’t useful to relieve his anxiety.

The principal theme of the movie remains around the life of a prisoner, Andy, and tells us about the various circumstances and adversities faced by him and how does he manage to go through all this. The movie skillfully integrates the representation of harsh realities of the prison world and remains successful to a large extent in conveying the intended message to the viewer as to how brutal and harsh a prisoner’s life can be.

The movie, Crash, demonstrates the lives of various individuals from divergent socio-economic classes, who have life changing experiences in between their conflicting prejudices and stereotypes. The theme of multiculturalism has also made its influence on the major characters of the movie: a white American district attorney and his wife who is constantly scared of "the other"; two African American thieves who steal their car, a racist police officer who offends an African American TV producer and harasses his wife, a non-racist police officer, a Latino lock maker, a Persian family and another African American detective in the search of his brother.

Drugs destroyed Nic. Before Nic became addicted to drugs he was a charming kid, a varsity athlete, and very nice to his family. But after drugs Nic was a new person. He lied, cheated, and lived on the streets. Nic’s father worried about his daily, wondering if he was okay. Finally it was too much. Even though Nic kept saying he would stop, he never did. Nic’s father trusted him but was getting close to losing it. Finally after Nic running away multiple times, breaking into houses, and stealing money, David decides to force Nic into rehab. For Nic, as well as many other addicts, rehab didn’t work. David would notice Nic was high yet it wouldn't’ stop him. David was giving up. He reached out to other addicts parents to see what they did. Then as someone recommended, Nic moved down to Los Angeles by his mom. They thought it was a much better environment where Nic could stay away from

Much like Noah, he believes that he will be saved, while everyone else in the world perishes from the torrents of water. Later in the film, Travis feels compelled to take action against this sleaze. He wants to help purify the world by eliminating the sleaze by whatever methods he deems appropriate. Even if this means killing his fellow man, then so be it.

Travis in the movie is the protagonist, and lives by the lower class ruling. Travis is more intelligent than the typical lower class (proletariat). One can tell because of the thoughts he writes down in his diary. Travis falls under the category of a stereotypical low class laborer. He works long hours; normally from 6 in the evening until 6 in the morning, and works 6, sometimes even 7 days a week. He writes a lot about his trips that he makes while driving the taxi. The writing in his diary show he is against the low life people who he sees, and who live on the streets. He says, “All the animals come out at night. Whores, scum, beggars, junkies, fairies. Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” (Approximately 7 minutes into the film.). This is also a possible foreshadowing event on what he plans to do later in the

In Taxi Driver, Scorsese manages his camera angles and editing to emphasize Travis seeing the world through glass or mirrors, especially the windshield and rear-view mirror of the taxi, through which all major characters enter Taxi Driver: Betsy through the panes of an all-- glass office; Palantine through his rear-view mirror; and Iris and Sport in a fleeting glance in his mirror. As Travis meets with a black-market gun dealer, and in this scene the weapon literally becomes the organ of perception. Scorsese situates his camera on Travis' arm as that arm takes the weapon and slowly pans it across the window looking down on the street below. Finally, in the scene which has made Travis Bickle a cinematic icon ("Are you talking to me?"), Travis looks into his mirror, challenges imaginary adversaries, and draws his various weapons in assault. The ambiguity of the image is poignant: Travis looks into a mirror and makes a self-destructive gesture foreshadowing his attempted suicide at the climax of the film, and Travis peers through the looking glass and

     The character of Travis Bickle roams the nights in his taxi cab, and witnesses all of this “open sewer”,