I started to like Martin Scorsese after Gangs of New York

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2003)

because when I got obsessed with the director and his film Gangs of New York, I thought to myself, "Why not see the rest of his other classics?" So I bought Taxi Driver on DVD and the film was terrific. What I really liked about the film itself was how it portray loneliness in the story. The entire film was about Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a vietnam soldier that has nowhere to go or nowhere to start, so he chooses his new life as a Taxi Driver. He hates what he sees on the streets, he wishes that all the scum and filth would be rid of. Martin Scorsese treats New York as one of his stars because he shows what went on in New York in the eyes of Travis Bickle. Travis meets a beautiful woman name Betsy played by the seductive Cybill Shepard. She is like the perfect chick that any guy would like to screw in bed, including Tom played nerdy by Albert Brooks. After seeing a porn flick, Betsy breaks up with Travis and that's where Travis loses his mind. He starts getting guns, and practices by trying to figure out who to kill. Travis befriends a twelve year old prostitue name Iris(a young Jodie Foster) for whom he wants to help her by getting rid of her pimp Sport(played by Harvey Keitel).
I forgot to mention Peter Boyle's character as Wizard, he is the only character in the film that tries to help Travis before he goes off the brink of insanity. I liked Peter's performance.
All in all, everybody should talk to lonely people or befriend them no matter how weird or goofy they are. I loved Robert De Niro's performance as the psycho that just lost control of himself. I love the fact that Robert pulled a stunt like that. The film is good, the acting is awesome, and the dialogue is perfect. Not to mention Bernard Herrmann's music, his final score.
10/10
A+