Thursday, April 3, 2014
Taxi Driver
From the beginning of this film, I was confused and thrown off by the main character, Travis. Every time something happens with Travis it seems a bit peculiar and different. It almost makes it not believable and in a way, part of a dream. Travis goes a little bit insane when he notices the trouble the city is facing and the people that are causing this trouble. When he starts to play with the guns in his room, I began to think it was a dream and that he would never do anything with those guns. During the shooting scene, when Travis shoots a ton of people, the whole scenario seems a little strange. When he shoots the first guy, he does not immediately die. After he enters the second building and shoots the old man, he doesn't die until later on. Travis also gets shot in the neck but puts his hand there and acts like nothing really happened. Most people would immediately be dead. Iris is also barely affected by the whole scene and at the end is safe and sound with her parents. At the end of the movie when Travis drove Iris, he seems like nothing ever happened and looked like nothing ever happened. This makes me feel like the entire sequence of events from him shooting in his room to the taxi drive with Iris is all a dream.
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Its a common theory to believe that Taxi Driver was all a area, i agree that in many ways the film can be seen as a dream of Travis. Between all the pills and lack of sleep the theory sounds more like a possibility. However all the pills and talk of lack of sleep were all part of the movie therefore part of his dream. Assuming you start the dream in the begging as he drives threw the streets of the city and ending at the end where it seems to have picked up right where he left off. Perhaps Scorsese intended to do this perhaps he did not. Either way this is a fantastic movie all around.
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