Voyeurism

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 2015)

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is film that talk about voyeurism. Travis is watching many people like Betsy from his taxi. Travis looks the parts of New York society he wants to see removed from his taxi. He also stokes Betsy, beautiful woman works at the office of an assemblyman, and Iris, a prostitute. His voyeuristic acts make fantasy and give him dangerous doing. Also, voyeuristic camera angles are used in a variety of ways. The effect this has is that there is someone watching them talk and does not want to be noticed. Audiences are put into the film as invisible character. When Travis calls to Sally, the camera moves away from Travis and we can only see a corridor. Since his miserable talking is painful to watch, so we give up seeing. This camera work is very interesting. We peeping Travis as passenger of the world in the film. With some tension, we pay close attention to move of character and what is spoken. We are introduced to Travis by seeing his eyes and their reflections in the rear-view-mirrors of his taxi. The self-reflection is the one of theme and it is illustrated in the famous mirror-scene that Travis speaks to mirror. But Travis is also a voyeuristic substitute of us as audience. We observe what goes on around him. We can leads how he becomes a murderer. We can feel both positions about surveillance. Therefore, they shocked and feel anxiety. Then, give audiences a strong impression.