Taxi Driver Hero

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2015)

I am a big film fan. I think I've seen around 2000 films. Films from all countries all around the world. Never in my whole life have I seen a better film than this. I know that perhaps to the average viewer the start might be slow. To tell you the truth, the first time I saw this masterpiece it was with my father and in the middle of the movie he fell asleep, yet if I could describe my reaction to this with one word it would be astonished. Never before did I think my jaw could be so close to the floor.
It's a film about loneliness told like a Neo-noir fairytale. Travis Bickle (DeNiro/the Taxi Driver) is a character some people will identify to. After about 40 viewings it is still not clear to me whether he is a confused hero, a crazy antihero or a misunderstood villain. He is the most complex character you will ever find in a film. I've seen Bickle's name on some "Top 10 Film Heroes" and "Top 10 Movie Villains List". Whatever he is, he is just the perfect every day man. Quoting the Film he is "God's Lonely Man". Whatever he does it clearly only goes wrong, to the extreme where I would dare to call the movie a tragedy.
Now **SPOILERS AHEAD**
I have a theory about the ending. I think that the epilogue (starting from after the shooting in the pimp place to the very ending) is just the delirious fantasy of a dying man. In the film we get subtle clues about this, for instance the letter he rights to Iris and the dream-like look of said sequence.
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