Taxi Driver (1976)'s comments - page 3

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seithscott

Incredibly subtle movie, Scorsese is a genius.

13 years ago

lunchboxhero

Finally checked this masterpiece out. Was definitely feeling the noir vibe. Highly recommend this film for viewers with taste.

13 years 3 months ago

Rohit

Kudos, Pain.
Absolute brilliant film! It is underrated, if anything. :)

13 years 5 months ago

ghostoni1

very good movie

the ending was kinda strange though

14 years 3 months ago

But for the ending, Taxi Driver could be the American classic received wisdom tells us it is. De Niro hands in an intense performance, and Scorsese goes almost Giallo with his colorful night cinematography, while the day exposes a filthy New York City filled with garbage, rust, and background violence. Though some people will always get the wrong message out of films like this - connecting to the protagonist in a way that makes him "right" though he's really a symptom of the decaying, corrupted world he lives and moves through - that ending tends to help them more than it does the film's point. Personally, I have no doubt the epilogue is a fantasy. It's just too ludicrously "happily ever after" to make sense otherwise. The incel stalker, would-be presidential assassin, does not get the girl or go back to his normal life after this. The way it's shot, with the camera leaving the scene of the crime as if it were Bickle's soul, also supports that interpretation. But it doesn't help. It seems to say, go to your well-deserved rest now, young hero, sleep peacefully, here's a heaven with 72 virgins or what have you. Where life gives him his comeuppance, the film decides to fly away and reward him for his vigilante action. Taxi Driver will always be iconic because of the moments everyone remembers, but as a whole, it is severely problematic, and as social mores evolve, only gets more so.

4 years 2 months ago