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Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2020)

Taxi Driver is the movie that creates very unpleasant image of New York. In this movie New York is dark, criminal and lonely place. This isn't the most common image of the city in movies. Scorcese has directed the movie that you don't forget.
A main character is Travis Bickle (De Niro) who is a taxi driver in New York. When he is driving a taxi at nights many kind of people are at streets: politicians, criminals, pimps, prostitutes and different mad people. Bickle also is lonely and aimless Vietnam war veteran. All this drive him mad. Different obsessions like aim to assassinate president candidate and murder of pimp and his criminal helpers. On the other hand, he wants to free a young prostitute Iris from her pimp and hates criminals. Bickle is hero and anti-hero in the same package. All tragedy and madness is revealed at the end. The final scene is memorable.
Taxi Driver is a timeless masterpiece by Scorcese and De Niro.The genuine classic! 10/10