What is the message from Taxi Driver?

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.



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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.

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My whole life is pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.” What makes this one of the most memorable Taxi Driver quotes is how it marks the biggest turning point in Travis' character arc.

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If you look at Travis Bickle through the lens that he's a lonely, depressed, withdrawn social outcast, then yes, he is relatable to those who interpret him in that way. He is the “angry young man” character that is no different from Holden Caulfield or William Foster.

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It is based on German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter's interactions with driver Kim Sa-bok; however, as very little information on Kim was known at the time the film was made, most elements regarding his life and the events that happened to him outside of Gwangju are fictional.

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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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Those with schizotypal personality disorder tend to feel uncomfortable and have a difficult time in social circumstances, although they may still be friendly towards others. In the film Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro's character Travis Bickle seems to be suffering from this disorder.

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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.

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AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES
  1. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Gone with the Wind (1939) ...
  2. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. The Godfather (1972) ...
  3. You don't understand! I coulda had class. ...
  4. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. The Wizard of Oz (1939) ...
  5. Here's looking at you, kid.


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