Taxi Driver (1976) Full Movie Reaction

ohhh my, i had a ''Joker'' nostalgia while watching this and I didn't know how to name it! Scorsese became one of our favorite directors a while back, but now after watching this? is close to be our nr 1 aha

quite in-depth explanation! if i was single, not married to Joy.. i think I would find this movie very self-reflecting and sad at the same time.. it was good seeing something way out of ordinary ''used to movies'' like, and took our time to see this intriguing, chilling and disturbing at some point... while keeping a realistic point of view and a character who ''like you said'' was a victim of his own misfortune!

not far from the truth! it felt like playing a fantasy game without fantasy spells or magic abilities.. it felt weird in the beginning but had this chilling feeling after followed by a huge adrenaline burst at the end.. over all a good movie to watch on a rainy day and hide under a warm blanket with a cop of tea or coffee

Taxi Driver is an amazing character study, and is the movie that made Martin Scorsese famous to most people. He and DeNiro had already worked together on one called "Mean Streets". "Joker" was inspired by two DeNiro/Scorsese movies, "Taxi Driver" and "The King of Comedy". Debate what it means like everybody else... you'll never forget you saw it. PS-- the long fingernail is grown out to use to snort cocaine.

Mark Kelso

There is so much to be said about Taxi Driver that this discussion simply won't be able to cover all of it, but there are some things that worth discussing. To start, it's hard to make anything of Travis. Most people attribute his odd nature and serious mental problems to his service in the Vietnam war like PTSD, but that's only scratching the surface and missing much of the point. Travis's problems aren't solely the result of PTSD, although they clearly do play a role in his ability to function and interact with others. Remember, much of Taxi Driver has to do with being lonely and isolated in one of the biggest cities around. Look at the famous scene where he talks to himself in the mirror. I know it was improvised, but it still says much about the character. "You takin' to me? Well, I'm the only one around here." Think about it; he is so lonely that he has to talk to his reflection. Overall, Taxi Driver is a film about isolation and loneliness. If he had an environment that recognized that he has some serious issues, then he wouldn't have done much of what he did. Instead, Betsy kicks him out of her life, the cab drivers go on about nothing (remember when Travis talks to Wizard about wanting to do "bad things" to people?), and the pimps see him only as a customer. Travis is also a walking contraction and someone who creates his own misfortune. He is disgusted by the prostitution and sex around him, yet he goes to watch pornos every night. He longs for human interaction, yet ruins his chances with Betsy by taking her to watch a porno flick (I can't think of anyone who would watch porn on a first date with a girl). If Travis had just taken her to dinner or a less shocking movie, who knows what could've happened. Instead, he creates his own misfortune. As I said when I started, you could literally write an entire book about Taxi Driver and still not get everything. But what bothers me the most is when people simply look at Taxi Driver as a movie about a disturbed veteran (which he obviously is) and not consider the other themes and aspects of the movie. Hell, look at the beginning and the end of the movie. The first scene and the last scene are identical, because nothing was solved and Travis remains the same person. This has to be Robert De Niro's greatest performance of his career, and one of the best performances in film history.

Joe Lazarus

My nickel analysis. The movie really is about loneliness and Travis is a lonely person whose life is not going anywhere. His life has no plot, he just has these experiences he accumulates in a cab. What he thinks he should become is a hero. If you think about it, there is a training montage in the movie where Travis works out, decides to eat better and puts on a new persona with the mohawk. Instead of Batman gadgets, he gets guns. He even goes out and kills bad guys and saves the girl. I think Scorsese is trying say, is this what I'm supposed to be as a man? Like so many people, Travis doesn't want to grow up, he wants to live in his fantasy world where life is simple and made up of good guys and bad guys when it's really all complicated and gray. Like so many movies, Taxi Driver even ends with a "final battle". And despite the ugly and brutal violence, Travis is praised in the newspaper. Really, he is the definition of an anti-hero.

Ellie Miller