masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2005)

A modern urban symphony,a man who has fought a true war fighting a truer one,a rhapsody of colours moving back towards the root of an alienation that requires nothing but going on,a pure denunciation of our world. saying that it is just a film which belongs to the violent realism of 70's means not to understand the great message it brings with.probably one of the most unfairly not celebrated film ever made.the top(though I hate pointing out the best scenes of a movie)is when travis -before he meets betsy - walks down the street well dressed through people with the slow-motion camera. even betsy's face in the last scene is full of meanings:while city's lights slide behind her and she looks at travis,he's not caring anymore about her,we can easily understand that right now he is not as lovely as he had been before:any of his precedent friends,situations,relations are just the steps of a way he has just ended,and he can't go back.but then why the movie can do that?why making them meeting again?I believe that this was done just in order to remark travis's distance from what he had been interested by.as she gets off,once again city's objects are mixed up as if sounds and images were no longer able to express by themselves a personal point of view and the madness of a man who even when celebrated can't get satisfied of how the world,and betsy,too,looks at him.the ending is not an happy one:people don't smile to him until he is a poor and lonely man but start loving him like they never did just because he did something,and think of him as if he had changed a lot:he hasn't changed!-or,if he has,they can't know.He had dreamed of being somebody:well,he had already been somebody,and went on being,not only thanks to the massacre.A masterpiece.