Amazon.com Essentials:
Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of
loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director
Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into
precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just
knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say),
combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal,
political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured,
ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his
chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly
realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed
vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of
blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute
(Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating
consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure
to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power
and importance. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com Essentials:
Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness
and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and
screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of
psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film,"
Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate
expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the
tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his
chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized
characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views
his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian
angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating
consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some
viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff
Shannon
Amazon.com Essentials:
Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of
loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director
Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into
precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just
knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say),
combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal,
political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured,
ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his
chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly
realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed
vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of
blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute
(Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating
consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure
to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power
and importance. --Jeff Shannon
