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.
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Based on a real-life story, the film centers on a taxi driver from Seoul who unintentionally becomes involved in the events of the Gwangju Uprising in 1980.
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.
The Ending Was Too ViolentTravis fulfills his John Wayne rescue fantasy by gunning down Iris' pimp (Harvey Keitel), her client, and a bouncer. Bullets tear through their flesh, blood erupts from their wounds and splatters everywhere.
Schrader said it's not a dream sequence, but it ends where it began, with Travis driving around the city and fueling his hate, waiting to let it build up and explode again.
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.