Directed by Martin Scorsese
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
I believe that one should become a person like other people...
He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive. This tagline very well sums up what the film is about.
Travis Bickle (Robert de Niro), a taxi driver lives in New York city. He suffers from insomnia and therefore spends spare time watching porn movies at a theatre or observing the city and its people. He gets obsessed with a girl Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) working for a president campaign. When the dating with her doesn't work out, he starts following Iris (Jodie Foster) who is a prostitute and Travis wants to free her from a life he believes she is fed up of.
I love the way Scorsese narrates the story through the Point of View of Travis. The same thing he did in Goodfellas too, though I think in this film he did this in a larger extent.
The screenplay is intentionally kept slow, building the character of Travis who slowly is going to get insane and do some mad activities. That practice of shooting sequence, change in hairstyle, talking to a security person at President's place and the shoot sequence at Iris place were some of best moments in the film.
The dialogues are really good. All the observations that Travis has in the film, are connectable easily.
Robert de Niro is excellent, its my first film that I have seen of him. Certainly, a actor that should interest me a lot in more movies I watch of him. I love all the conversations he has with his family through those diary writing. And specially the way he observes people, or a ongoing conversation.. sometimes giving a expression of 'I am not sure how I am supposed to react'.
I didn't like this film that much when I saw it, then I love it now. The more I thought on it, the more I liked it. Certainly one of those films for me. Plus, the fact that I expected a fast paced film when I started watching it was also one of major reasons.
Though still Goodfellas and The Departed are above Taxi Driver for me. Repeated viewings could certainly change that in future, for sure I missed certain detailings that are there in the film.
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
I believe that one should become a person like other people...
He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive. This tagline very well sums up what the film is about.
Travis Bickle (Robert de Niro), a taxi driver lives in New York city. He suffers from insomnia and therefore spends spare time watching porn movies at a theatre or observing the city and its people. He gets obsessed with a girl Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) working for a president campaign. When the dating with her doesn't work out, he starts following Iris (Jodie Foster) who is a prostitute and Travis wants to free her from a life he believes she is fed up of.
I love the way Scorsese narrates the story through the Point of View of Travis. The same thing he did in Goodfellas too, though I think in this film he did this in a larger extent.
The screenplay is intentionally kept slow, building the character of Travis who slowly is going to get insane and do some mad activities. That practice of shooting sequence, change in hairstyle, talking to a security person at President's place and the shoot sequence at Iris place were some of best moments in the film.
The dialogues are really good. All the observations that Travis has in the film, are connectable easily.
Robert de Niro is excellent, its my first film that I have seen of him. Certainly, a actor that should interest me a lot in more movies I watch of him. I love all the conversations he has with his family through those diary writing. And specially the way he observes people, or a ongoing conversation.. sometimes giving a expression of 'I am not sure how I am supposed to react'.
I didn't like this film that much when I saw it, then I love it now. The more I thought on it, the more I liked it. Certainly one of those films for me. Plus, the fact that I expected a fast paced film when I started watching it was also one of major reasons.
Though still Goodfellas and The Departed are above Taxi Driver for me. Repeated viewings could certainly change that in future, for sure I missed certain detailings that are there in the film.
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