Taxi Driver: Conceivably The Greatest Movie Ever Made
This article is a review of the widely acclaimed movie “Taxi Driver.” If you have never seen this movie, or even if you’ve seen it a long ago, it warrants a rental from your local video shop. Even by today’s standards, it is a bold study of human drama and insanity.
Our tale begins with the drive of a New York taxi on the night shift. He is wholly dissatisfied with life and the filth that he sees on a regular basis. We meet a few of his fares, and see how he develops his distaste for humanity. We actually begin to agree with his assessment of human nature.
He appears to have a slight chance of a normal life when he meets a young girl who works for a political campaign. He meets her a few times, and convinces her to see a movie with him. Unfortunately, he brings her to an adult movie theater, completely ruining his chances of ever having a normal relationship with her. This is where his descent into madness begins.
He meets up with a gun dealer, and buys several guns with the intention of assassinating a political candidate. He practices endlessly in front of the mirror, pulling a concealed weapon on an imaginary person who sleights him, in what is likely one of the most well known scenes in movie history.
He shaves his head, wears odd clothing, and sets out to kill the politician. Things don’t go as he planned, and in a bizarre twist of fate, he gets into a gun battle with a pimp, and inadvertently saves a young girl from life on the streets of New York as a prostitute. He later receives a letter from her parents, thanking him as if he is a hero.
Taxi driver is a haunting study in one man’s view of reality, and how he chooses to deal with it. We get to go with him as he journeys through the heart of darkness, and actually root for him to come out on the other side. Taxi Driver is therefore one of the movies that you absolutely must watch.
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