Taxi Driver

veteran of the Vietnam War and now works as a taxi driver in New York. All through the night, he goes on working alone in a metropolitan city, because he can’t sleep at night. Travis lives alone, without his family, any friend and lover, so he doesn’t talk to anybody, but he spent watching porn and thinking about himself. He seems to be alienated from others and the society, at the same time he has already noticed his lonely situation. In Taxi Driver, Travis feels loneliness which ruins him gradually

Written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese “Taxi Driver” is a movie designed around a marine veteran, Travis, who becomes a taxi driver in New York. He sets off to have a relationship like he sees all over town. However, Travis is pretty bad about forming relationships even with coworkers which spill into a relationship he tries to form and utterly fails. Besides being rejected he originally seems like he is going down the wrong path, but the sequence of events changes and he becomes

. he’s a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walking contradiction.” (Taxi Driver) We are all encapsulated in our own self-concept. It can make it impossible for us to understand how our actions are doing more damage than good. As human beings, if we cannot find the source of our turmoil we are doomed for our anguish to be projected externally as strokes of violence. In the film Taxi Driver, Travis is not doing enough to fix his problems. He is constantly putting himself into situations

The famous line “You talkin’ to me?” was spoken by Robert DeNiro in the 1976 film Taxi Driver. Robert DeNiro’s character, Travis Bickle, experiences life in the big city as a taxi driver. As the movie progress he encounters people and situations that affect Travis both physically and mentally. Martin Scorsese directed the film making it a great success in the 1970’s. In order to make the film successful he utilized a series of film elements. Scorsese made use of camera components, repetition of music

element in many Martin Scorsese films, and Taxi Driver is no different. The article “Portraits of the postmodern person in Taxi Driver, Raging Bull; and The King of Comedy” written by Barbara Mortimer discusses how identity can make up the backbone of a character, but also how gender is another fixed view of identity. The bulk of the article has to do with the female identity in both the males and females of three of Scorsese’s films, which includes Taxi Driver. The main talking point of the article

Travis Bickle is a Vietnam War veteran and now works as a taxi driver in New York, metropolitan city. All through the night, he works alone on a taxicab because he can’t sleep at night. Every single day of his life, Travis lives alone, without his family, any friend and lover. He doesn’t talk to anybody, but he spent his lifetime watching porn and thinking about himself. Therefore, he seems to be alienated from others and the society. Travis feels lonely in his situations, which appear in the film

Directed by Martin Scorsese in the year of 1976, one of the epic movies of late 1970’s movie history, without any doubts is ‘‘Taxi Driver’’. The movie is not only about a Vietnam war veteran who drifts through the dark streets of Scorcese’s New York City, but also it is about his transformation within the terms of how he turns into a ‘‘monster’’ while actually turns into the hero because of his attempts of trying to save a young, 12,5 years old prostitude. While watching, Martin Scorsese’s use

The film Taxi Driver (1976) directed by Martin Scorcese tells the story of Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), a Vietnam war veteran who takes a job as a night-time taxi driver in New York City. Travis’ views the city negatively, referring to it as an “open sewer”. This establishes his perspective that crime is environmental; a by-product of New York City itself. Taxi Driver is set in the 1970’s, a period which saw the aftermath of the Vietnam War and New York City suffer from an economic recession, considered

The film Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, takes place in New York City during the 1970’s. The main character Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, is a United States Marine returning home after serving his country. Taxi Driver appears to demonstrate the theory of Social Disorganization. The audience can see this throughout the film in scenes where Bickle is driving through the city. As the film continues Bickle appears to struggle with adjusting to such a large city and coping with

Taxi Driver: The Filth of the Streets and of Self The opening shot is Robert DeNiro’s character, Travis Bickle’s eyes in the review mirror intensely gazing at the city. It then transitions to the view outside of the taxi to the colorful, hectic streets of New York City. This exaggerates the importance of the taxi itself and the main character’s point of view from within it. Bickle is a veteran Marine who can’t sleep and decides to take the job of driving the long hours. He narrates the film as