A Assessment Of The Spellbinding “Taxi Driver”
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This is a review of the classic Robert DeNiro Movie “Taxi Driver.” If you’ve never seen this movie, you are missing out on one of the finest pieces of American film making. Even in modern day qualifications, it is a bold masterpiece of drama and the slow descent into madness.
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 seems to have a brief period where we think he actually may turn toward a normal life when he meets a young woman working on a political campaign. They even go out on a date, but he takes her to an adult movie theater, completely ruining his chances of every seeing her again. After his disaster at this attempt at a normal relationship, he plunges headlong into irreversible insanity.
He somehow meets with a dealer in illegal weapons, and buys several handguns. He practices concealing a small firearm up his sleep, and stands in front of the mirror in an imaginary conflict with a would be assaulter. This is likely the best known scene from this movie. His plan is to assassinate a political candidate.
He shaves his head, dresses like a punk rocker and does not follow through with his plan to assassinate the political candidate. In a bizarre twist of events, he is involved in a shoot out with a pimp, and inadvertently saves a girl from a continued life of prostitution on the streets. He receives a heart felt thank you letter from her parents after she safely returns home to the Midwest.
The movie “Taxi Driver” is a phenomenon study in human nature, and how far one can become detached from normal reality. It’s no secret that this is one of the must see movies that should be on your list. If you haven’t see this, you should. If you have seen it, you should watch it again.
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