At that moment, he wanted to die.

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2020)

I have known this film for a long time, and I have not seen it. I do not know why the great works in the film history are all those depressing pieces. This time, it is not easy to divide them into several times.
Robert DE niro in the film is very thin, although a tired, but the real young, and very handsome, I really think so. His performance in the film is introverted, everyone will pile on the ambiguous smile, when a person, the face is expressionless.
Martin scorsese and Robert DE niro work together to create an image of the weary, the weary from the inside out.
Travis coming from the war, although young, she has experienced the vicissitudes of life, he is a man, driving a bright old cab ramble in the river, both white and black ghetto or what is shady area, he go through it all, so what happen maybe he want, good disturb his boring life, even if it is a bad thing, but what things didn't happen to him, so he began to find their own things to do.
He saw a woman, she was wearing a white coat, appeared in front of his mature grace, symbolizes the purity of never being polluted, he fell in love with her, even in the heart of parents also mentioned her, he ask her to have dinner, buy her she ever mentioned record, but they, after all, not a man of the world, so he make her office, was finally booted out.
Then she met another woman, and the first woman is the opposite, she was reduced to dust, pure and she did not come close, but young rebellious, unworldly. Instead of saving her the first time they met, he drove away, and because of that, he remembered him.
Then, for no apparent reason, he wanted to kill the President. He prepared everything meticulously, as if there was a blood feud with him, and every procedure was not neglected. When he appeared on the outskirts of the crowd with his new haircut, he finally externalized his weariness.
Travis, care about the process and the behavior of the to do a thing in itself, rather than the result of this matter, at the same time, he to the society at that time, although he is very dirty, very disappointed, but he shot the President's behavior is not disappointed at his record, want others to President candidate, so want to, just to think of Travis too radical, he was tired of everything, don't care who will run the country. So when he failed to assassinate him, he immediately gave up and went on to what he called a plan to free Ellis.
Before that he has met several times, and Ellis his righteousness is words to advise Ellis to stop working in the same, really is persuasive, but Ellis is not brought his affection, she also don't think what's wrong with the present life, she was immersed in a pimp false tender feelings sweet meaning, it's hard to imagine that Ellis will hold such a strong sense of justice. Perhaps Travis simply saw Ellis' makeover as another way to pass the time in his life.
He acted after the assassination of the President.
Just borrow one and kill them all. I've heard a saying before, the timid are afraid of the bold, and the bold are afraid of the desperate. Measured by this standard, Travis is undoubtedly the most terrible what kind of person, he doesn't care about being hit, the reason why he escape is before you want to hit all the others, so when all the gunfire stopped screaming only Ellis, Travis lifted the pistol, aimed at his chin, successive a few trigger, if there were bullets in the gun, Travis early die, but god don't let him get a bullet didn't give him the rest.
When the police arrived, Travis smiled as he watched them raise their bloody left hands to his temple and pull the trigger.
Maybe the world is too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
Travis has experienced the cruelty of war, with the exhaustion of body and mind to leave the battlefield, the war only bring pain for him, but I did not bring any honor, when he USES the bloody and violent to defeat their spiritual emptiness and tired, when he put all the order and the moral principles behind, but fate and he opened a joke, let him be the hero of media coverage, won the appreciation of people, after all this, Travis, can not think how ridiculous.
After the injury healed, he was discharged from the hospital, his hair grew back, he started driving a taxi again, and his life was on the right track. Perhaps after this, Travis was completely relieved.
When he met the girl he had been attracted to, he looked at her in the rearview mirror. She was still very bright and attractive. Yes, seeing this movie, I couldn't help but doubt the credibility of the type printed on it every day.
He politely talked to her about her support for the President without looking any different, as if he had completely forgotten that he was about to assassinate him. He never tried to ask her out for dinner or a movie until he took her home, because he knew she had a good taste and would turn up her nose at the porn she liked.
She stood in front of the car bent over, hesitated, as if to say something, but the words, the absence of a completely different, how much?
As soon as the words were out of their mouths, they completely replied to each other, crossed off everything in the past, he smiled, said a goodbye, and drove away. Leave her behind, with a slightly wistful expression. This time, it's really goodbye.
I believe that Travis will never kill anyone again and will never fall in love with anyone again. He is just in front of his taxi driver and only has the relationship of money and interests with all people. He is not afraid of anything.
The streets of the night are flashing with colorful bright lights, to the world paint it does not have the color, like a cocktail, very rich, but not pure.