"I'm God's lonely man..."

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2012)

A veteran of the Vietnam War began to work as a taxi driver in New York ... that's the story told by Martin Scorsese in his film "Taxi Driver" (1976), nominated for four Oscars and winner the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
It is a psychological drama narrated in a linear fashion and it is about loneliness, because throughout the film we see Travis (De Niro) as a lonely man who sees society as a strange phenomenon and has trouble connecting with others.
It all becomes a portrait of a few days in the life of the protagonist and Scorsese takes the viewer into the inner world of Travis, which largely succeeds without using dialogue and works quite well, because everything ended up watching from Travis point of view: we entered his world slowly because of the different situations that we see.
We see Travis in several facets: crazy, manic, violent, angry ... Scorsese shows us his different emotions intelligently, for each triggered by a distinct situation. And although in the end we find a "psychopath", he ends up generating some empathy with the audience, because everyone at some point has felt strange and lonely just like Travis.
It is a character we know as a person, not just as a taxi driver, and gradually we realize that the mental state that he has is what takes him out of reality, but at the same time it does seem to help him achieve "his peace" , the peace he wanted.
While the film, Scorsese directs and manages it to be as extraordinary as he dreamed it. He tells the audience what he needs to know, but not what he wants to know. It has excellent performances and well constructed characters. Finally becomes a movie of "cult" that every movie lover should see, because of his script, how everything flows naturally and realistically, nothing feels forced and all together creates a movie that can be seen many times and still surprising the audience.