Why is taxi driver so special?

The story is basic (a crazed vietnam vet plots a killing), but it's the character study that makes it so great. Not a lot of films focuses on the thoughts and behaviors of a character (nor from his/her P.O.V. ), especially when those thoughts happen to be dark and deranged.



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If you look at Travis Bickle through the lens that he's a lonely, depressed, withdrawn social outcast, then yes, he is relatable to those who interpret him in that way.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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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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