Premise. Kim Do-gi is a KMA graduate who works as a taxi driver for a company which offers a revenge-call service to its clients who have been wronged and helps them to exact vengeance.
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Taxi Driver highlights the way loneliness infects the body like a virus, and self-persuasion ultimately acts as one's life support. Scorcese excels at portraying Bickle as objectively odd and crazy, while simultaneously giving justice to his point of view.
Loneliness in CrowdsAmong the millions of people in New York City, meaningful personal connections can be few and far between, and in Taxi Driver we see several cases of such urban isolation.
Taxi Driver is a film about frustrated masculinity. Although Scorsese's films are usually being associated with male power and gangster world, it may often relate to a frustrated and fragile male rather than a truly masculine and powerful one.
Taxi Driver is simply put, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro at their best. It's literally one of the most powerful films world cinema has ever seen. Many great directors put this picture on their great film's list which is a testimony to its greatness. Only a few films moved me like this picture.
Travis Bickle is a fictional character and the anti-hero protagonist of the 1976 film Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese. The character was created by the film's screenwriter Paul Schrader. He is portrayed by Robert De Niro, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance.
Scorsese injects a real understanding of the place and a real sense of foreboding into even the earliest scenes. He inserts clever and meaningful shots into scenes that other directors might just have filmed straight and his choice of scene and shot compliments the script is depicting Travis descending into madness.
Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), age 26, is Taxi Driver's lonely, alienated “hero.” Yes, he's a Vietnam War vet, ex-marine, and likely has his share of PTSD.
He hates the thugs and filth he sees on the streets while he drives yet he frequents porno theaters and his apartment is constantly a mess. He has a moral compass but again he suffers from insomnia, social awkwardness, and PTSD to a certain extent which leads him to the infamous shootout sequence.
Their chemistry in the film showcases the love they share for each other, and that's the best thing about this film. Chetan Anand's Taxi Driver is a typical romantic drama with mainstream commercial elements, and most of them are too predictable.
Job Title: Travis is a taxi driver. Joisey: Travis gives a fake name and address in New Jersey to a Secret Service agent after being promised forms to join the Secret Service, since he knows that's not the real reason the agent wants his address.