Classic exposition of psychopathy

Rating: 9/10 (25 January 2000)

This sort of violence in film is what causes kids to shoot up their schools. Oh, wait a minute...well, maybe it has a 20+ year incubation period. But seriously, wow...what can you say about DeNiro as the anti-hero in Taxi Driver? As close to genius as acting gets. Cybill Sheppard was the perfect avatar of sweetness to contrast with Travis Bickle's view of the filth (human and otherwise) of pre-Giuliani New York. At the very end when Bickle looks into the taxi mirror with sudden intensity, you know the story of Travis Bickle is not really over.
I get a kick out of seeing (semi) old movies and seeing things that have now faded into the past as a part of everyday life, in this case, typewriters.

Check out the DVD with the hour-long "Making of" documentary added.