"Loneliness has followed me my whole life"

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2020)

This film is so iconic and legendary for so many reasons. I suppose one of the main ones being how so many of us can relate to Travis and his loneliness. The movie is about loneliness and is entirely from Travis perspective, with even a few uncomfortable pov shots in the film. This film is an example of a movie being split into 2 films, the first half being light, optimistic and romantic. The music is entirely different having a romantic jazzy score up until travis gets rejected by betsy than the other half being dark, paranoid and violent. The score and Travis thoughts getting darker and darker. On a deeper level it is also about how society has failed Travis and ignored his underlying mental health issues. "All my life ever needed was a sense of someplace to go" . The ending of taxi driver is ambiguous and makes us wonder weather it all happened like we saw or if it was all in his head, I guess we'll never now for sure.