"You Talkin' To Me?"

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2020)

Beautiful violence. After Clockwork Orange I'd say this was a controversial movie, this movie hit headlines everywhere. So buckle your seat-belts and prepare for a disturbing, dark piece of art called Taxi Driver. Let's talk about the scene that caused a lot of drama, the scene where Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is at the Charles Palantine campaign and attempts to shoot the "future president" but the secret service man runs after him and doesn't catch him. Which inspired the shooting of Ronald Reagan, although the bullet barely missed him, hitting McCarthy instead (who sacrificed himself, with a bullet hitting him in the chest and one to the lung). The attempted assassination was done to impress Jodie Foster, the most talked about part of the movie is towards the end where Travis puts his bloody finger to his head and utters the famous lines, "pew, pew, pew". Does he survive? Yes, he was in a coma for a while and got back out well and recuperating. Does he get arrested? No, because he basically just murdered a bunch of criminals/pimps (being a pimp against the law). It's a timeless classic and just gets better with every viewing. Grade: A+