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Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2003)

Note... There are scenes depicted in this review if you do not want to know any scenes from this movie, please read this another time after you have seen Scorsese's and Deniro's great film... with that said...
Taxi Driver... the movie that people can only dream of topping. Travis Bickle is a taxi driver who has a overwhelming imagination about himself, and others and tries to save a pre-teen prostitute in order to do something worthwhile in his life. Robert Deniro was just great for the role.
this movie is just such a great portrayal of a man who cannot connect with human beings. his personality is one of many teenagers in high school and some even in college, who have been on the lower scale of the popularity chain. he has ideas and ideals that are good and true, but he just can't get them out properly without making himself look bad. he is very conscieous of his own image to such an extent that he is afraid to take any sort of risk, until the thought just drives him over the edge in the end of the movie.
To make the statement clear about his own self image, he actually goes out of his way in the movie to tell people that he was in the marines, or he's a narc, etc. he also goes to the porno theaters and just sits there playing with his hands as if they are guns. Travis loves guns and an occupation, or a role playing scenario of himself with the guns.
Travis is really this overgrown child who cannot communicate, but has great intentions. but his daydreaming sometimes got the best of him. his character is actually very attractive in many ways. its that type of character where if you see them, you think they are crazy, but you yourself would do the same behind a closed door. That is who Travis is. he is the guy just like any of us who cannot go beyond our mind barriers and our imagination because we seem to think that we cannot achieve those goals, or we would fail, die trying. Because Deniro has played such a great role, in such a great style of acting, it can be assumed, that he himself went through something of this magnitude during his own adolescent years. actors can only act their best if they have felt similar feelings to the ones that the character has. Deniro's personality, may not be exact, but can have aspects of Travis in himself, and that is just so cool about him. Deniro has taken himself, the side that never shows, and has shown it to the entire world. And most of us have always done things like role playing ourselves in the mirror.
Deniro was just great. Another thing that is great about this movie is that there is an hour and a half of pure story before getting into the coolest action scene (and memorable one) in cinema ever. this here is a great usage of buildup in cinema. This movie and the action scenes are very tasteful compared to other action movies nowadays.
SEE IT!