Advantages: Incredible direction, performances and writing. Disadvantages: None.
A loose remake of John Ford's The Searchers, Martin Scorsese's TaxiDriver tells the tale of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in an iconic, legendary, career-defining performance), a Vietnam veteran serving as a night-shift cabbie on the streets of New York City. An unhinged, socially inept loner, Travis, having been rejected by the woman he has fallen in love - or lust - with, attempts first to assassinate the presidential candidate for whom said woman was working, and then to rescue from a life of prostitution a 13 year old girl by the name of Iris.
Alongside the likes of Abel Ferrara's Driller Killer, Walter Hill's The Warriors and Scorsese's own Mean Streets, TaxiDriver helped to cement in the public imagination the image of New York as a dangerous, sin-sodden, nocturnal netherworld populated primarily by pimps, hustlers, hookers ...
Advantages: Scorsese, De Niro, Hermann, Schrader, Chapman Disadvantages: None.
Martin Scorsese's TAXIDRIVER was released in 1976 and for me, like millions of film buffs, is the greatest film ever made, elevated above every character study since through its fevered, paranoid, stark and unforgettable imagery of one man's vision of hell on earth, an entirely plausible New York.
Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle is a "cabbie" by night, insomniac by day. With long drawn-out nights looking through his windshield at New York's famous steaming sewers, rain-slicked filthy streets and glaring neon lights, and only his deteriorating thoughts for companionship, an alienated Travis learns to detest his surrounding world and those who decay it, working through his boiling contempt as he takes the truly detestable people of his city ("whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies") to their destinations. When ...
Charles_Strickland 22.09.2006 (28.07.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Taxi Driver (DVD)
Advantages: Very good film, lots of depth Disadvantages: ending is a bit short
TaxiDriver is the fascinating story about an alienated young insomniac who works as a night time taxidriver to earn small amounts of money, and over time builds up an endless hatred for the occupants of New York's ghetto. The taxidriver, played by Robert De Niro is portayed a quite a violent person, but also someone who feels deeply attracted to a young woman working for the local senator. In a bid to become closer to her, he builds up a political opinion of the senator, and shows this opinion to him when he takes a lift in the taxi.
Throughout the film the driver is always thinking to himself, mostly mentioning quotes from the story of Noah, and how a huge rain came and washed all of the scum off the earth. The driver believes that New York needs it's own rain to come down and wash the scum of the earth of it. As this obsession ...
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