Making famous one of the cult dialogue in the history of Cinema : 'You talkin to me???' , its my favourite Scorsese film, more so beacuse of the charming, Mc Dreamy, my favourite Robert DeNiro. Its engaging, impressive and truly deserves all the accolades it had garnered post its release in 1976 culiminating into an all time classic of world cinema.
It might come across as a terribly disturbing film at the first watch but after watching it again & again as i have been every single time I've seen it, struck by just how perfect this movie is! Travis Bickle's (Robert De Niro) loneliness is a hyper representation of the same loneliness most of us have experienced at different times in different measures. It is always associated with a nightmare and Martin Scorsese delivers it like a nightmare.The screenplay develops like a diary, the diary of a very ordinary guy who gets hired as a night taxi driver back from Vietnam, because he can't sleep at night. A very ordinary guy who tries to break his isolation,loneliness.. but can't, while violence accumulates inside him. One of those unnoticed people with dark things on their mind, one of those who break up the news one day with some extraordinary outburst of rage,falling back immediately into anonymity.The opening & closing credits are beautifully captured with the blazing lights of the yellow taxi cab moving slowly in the dark rainy streets. A kaleidoscope of neonlight appears through the dripping windows as the driver's eyes blink in the front mirror.The long nights in the city, the night environment full of whores, junkies, pimps and thieves are the main elements of the world in which Travis Bickle lives.
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