Taxi Driver

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2014)

Is a strong movie that covers a different topic and is a bit taboo. With the unstable main character, Travis, who is the way he is because of time in the war. He is a taxi driver (hence the name) by name and goes and sees porn by day. Although he isn't your usual good guy he does want to help and make the world better and his way of helping is by helping a 13 year old girl, Iris, who recently was left by her pimp, oh did I mention she was a 13 year old prostitute. This movie is definitely a psychological drama and Scorsese uses certain editing tools to increase our eagerness. He uses a lot of slow camera movement to build up the expectation. The movie also takes place in New York City, which is paints at this horrifying place by making the scenes dark and unpleasant. One editing tool that Scorsese uses that really put us in the mind of Travis were the voice over. One example of this was when Travis is reading his diary, but all of sudden mid sentence the shot cuts and repeats itself. Your first thought might be that the movie skip or there was some type of error, but no, it actually is meant to abruptly stop and start over again. This edit is done to show us how Travis' mind really works, it give us an inside look on how Travis' thoughts flow, and his current mental state. Taxi Driver is a high energy and definitely interesting, and it's always fun to see act Robert De Niro in a film, especially a younger version than I am use to!