The best movie to show the effects of the Vietnam war after it.

Rating: 9/10 (31 August 1999)

What a movie. De Niro's performance is excellent and one of his best career performances, Scorsese's directing is great as well and last but not least, Bernard Hermann's music is perfect and could not have been chosen better.
De Niro is Travis Bickle, a Vietnam vet who can't sleep at night so decides to become a taxi driver at night. You then see all the horrors he has to live each night by seeing a few of the people he has to pick-up especially the man played by Scorsese. He plays a disturbed man who wants to kill his wife because she has left him for a black man.

Bickle falls in love with a political worker, Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), but their affair does not work out after Travis unwillingly makes a stupid mistake (I won't reveal to you what the mistake was, you'll have to see the movie to find out for yourselves). We then realize he has been very affected by the Vietnam war as he somewhat becomes paranoid. He then tries to save a twelve year-old prostitute from the world in which she lives and his attempt leads to a violent ending.
"Taxi driver" is a great movie and of the most powerful one in years. The music, however, is probably as good as the performances and the directing. This is one you must see.