Taxi Driver – Paul Schrader
**spoiler alert** Our protagonist, Travis, is someone we might all wish we won’t meet on the street but will look back when he walk past.
He is dangerous, because he does not play with the rules and will keep his plan silent until he strikes. He might also appear to be charming, because his detached brusque manners appear to be self-assured but without any cockiness. He totters in the city full of vice and unconcern. We see how he tried to take on a relationship and how far he has actually achieved with his audacity, but failed embarrasly. We see how he tried to become someone he always dreams to be, but hideous affairs in the city dull him.
We however, might not understand very well why he wanted to kill. For the justification of the first target, It can be true that his background might leave him a radical and violent way of confronting evil. It can also be deemed as a veangeance of the rejection he received. The second target seems to be a pure obstacle to unchain an innocent soul. The final very awaited kill, even it is a improvised Plan B, plays with the fuzzy boundary of good and bad, also making a joke on Travis’s expectation, ending a heart-broken story with a good ending.
23.02.2024
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