Taxi Driver

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2020)

The repressed desire of the taxi driver Travis in the film was the re-discovery of the film this time, which was the subject that I was most concerned about.
It is actually quite obvious in the film: the unsatisfied desire makes the atmosphere of the film appear dark and heavy most of the time. In the previous movie viewing impression, I think it was because of the emotional dispute between Travis and Betsy, which did not pay much attention. This time it was the opposite. In the scene where Travis was on duty at midnight for the first time, the picture switched back and forth between the close-up of his eyes and the street scene-the girls under the street lights-and I finally realized it. I probably guessed the emotions behind Travis' eyes. He cursed the prostitutes-hoping that the heavy rain could wash the garbage off the streets-but he had been watching the women, his eyes entangled in love and sex.
From the current point of view, of course, sex and love are two different things. Sex does not necessarily mean love, and love does not necessarily mean sexual happiness. They are not two in one. However, to Travis, he was obviously not aware of this at this time, but he had already noticed the contradiction of "two in one". His belief was broken when he took Betsy to an adult movie theater for a date. In fact, you can see that when walking out of the theater, Travis is quite puzzled about Betsy's resistance.
When it comes to the ending, the performance of politicians has always been quite satisfactory, so according to the ending in the original impression, I can't understand the director's arrangement for him to be assassinated: Is it just because Travis' emotions are not irritated? Is the pattern of the big director Martin Scorsese (Martin Scorsese) so small? It turned out that in the end, the assassination was unsuccessful, the politician did not die as a result, and Travis had alarmed the bodyguard before he even acted. The audience unavoidably smiled when Kennedy was assassinated.
The ending began to shift towards the end that was different from my impression; the end was reversed several times, which was unexpected.