take it as it is

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2003)

This movie is one of the best 100 movies ever made because it breaches the impact of the infinite of loneliness. Travis's rejection is the rejection that we feel in relationships with friends and sexual partners. Many ask, why did he take Betsy to a dirty movie? Travis is a part of the very filth he wishes to eradicate. When Martin Scorsese is in Travis's cab, telling him he's going to kill his wife, this is the personification of his exposure to the city. The depth of the corruption of every man makes Travis Everyman. "I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people." This is Travis's "walking contradiction." Don't be superficial when watching this movie. Watch it alone, with alcohol. Realize that Travis exists inside of all of us -- he makes stupid male mistakes, he functions inaptly on his own, he lives in a world he feels is disrupt with filth. In the end, Travis is the hero, or anti-hero, because he actually succumbs to his human urges and subjugations. He's the hero, because this world, in this film, is fu*ked up. "You're only as healthy as you feel." Don't be afraid of yourself when you see how the taxi driver acts when he attempts to encroach the regular, normal world, which drives him further from the status quo.