Taxi Driver

of the city through the car’s windshield. I saw that it was blurred and there were no windshield

wipers used. Immediately it entered my mind that maybe this symbolized Travis’s distorted view

of the world around him. He was surrounded by a city’s crime and sleaze, which later drives him

to commit murder. “Taxi Driver” was one of the most powerful movies that I have ever seen. It

provides one with a realization of the filth that lurks in a big city like New York. As insane as he was, I almost understood what drove him to insanity and why he felt that he should kill the people that he did.

In Taxi Driver, I felt that Robert De Niro’s character, Travis, was extremely alone. This

was apparent in many situations. The one that stuck out most was during the famous “You

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His loneliness only goes deeper when he fails to connect with people. Travis asks Betsy on a date with

good intentions but then takes her to a porno theater. However the irony is that Iris does not seem to want to be “rescued”. After Travis rescues her from her pimp, she returns home to her family and gets back into school. When, in sense, he is not “there” at all.

Another thing that I noticed in the movie is that the viewer never really gets to know the

real Travis. Travis goes to rescue her and kills the men, including Sport, she works for. She seems content being with Sport and Travis seems to be intruding on the life she seems to be happy with already.

After Travis’s transformation into a troubled, alienated man, he sets out to “rescue” Iris, a twelve year-old prostitute, from her pimp Sport, played by Harvey Keitel. ” Having seen the movie

before, I picked up this line for the first time and thought about what its true meaning may have

been. He feels that he must rescue Betsy from the campaign but when he can’t he feels he must kill Palantine. Although her reasons for leaving home are never looked at, it makes the viewer wonder if there was something so bad there that she was running away from. But the viewer, and Palantine, can still

sense that something was wrong. Another quote I thought meant something was when Travis said, “I think someone should just take this city and just flush it down the fuckin’ toilet.

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