In Martin Scorsese’s classic film, he tells the ultimate story of New York vigilantism, featuring a young Robert Deniro, and Jodie Foster. Deniro’s character is a taxi driver, and vietnam veteran, who is displeased with the way things are happening in the city. To make matters worse, Deniro’s character, Travis Bickle, is a socially awkward loner who spends his free time in peepshows and adult film theaters. WHen he finally gets the nerve it doesn’t go well when he takes his date to one of the theaters of ill repute. She rejects him, and he starts his downward spiral of exacting revenge on society, for not living up to his standards, even going so far as to attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate.He finds a sense of twisted redemption while rescuing an underaged prostitute from her captors while murdering them all, and becoming a local hero in the process. A strange film, but masterfully executed.
TAXI DRIVER, Robert De Niro, 1976 – Everett Collection
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