Taxi Driver
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 3:12:53 by Taha Habib
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War.
The film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd.
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a lonely and depressed young man living in Manhattan. He is an honorably discharged Marine, and it is implied that he is a Vietnam veteran; he keeps a charred Viet Cong flag in his squalid apartment and has a large scar
on his back.
Bickle becomes a night time taxi driver in order to cope with his chronic insomnia, working 12-hour shifts nearly every night, carrying passengers around all five boroughs of New York City. His restless days, meanwhile, are spent in seedy porn theaters.
He keeps a diary (excerpts from which are occasionally narrated via voice-over during the film).
Bickle develops a romantic attachment to Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign volunteer for New York Senator Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). Palantine is running for President on a platform of dramatic social change.
After watching her from his taxi through the windows of Palantine’s campaign office interacting with fellow volunteer Tom (Albert Brooks), Bickle enters the office asking to volunteer as a pretext to talk with Betsy. Bickle convinces her to join him for
coffee and pie, and she later agrees to let him take her to a movie.
Bickle takes her to see Language of Love, a Swedish sex education film.[1] Offended, she leaves the movie theater and takes a taxi home alone. The next day he tries to reconcile
with Betsy, phoning her and sending her flowers, to no avail. At the campaign office, before being kicked out by Tom, Travis verbally berates Betsy, saying that she is "just like the rest of them" and that she will go to hell.
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Posted by Taha Habib
on Jan 3 2012. Filed under Entertainment.
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