A Simple Personal Comment for Mr. Scorsese.

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2019)

Taxi Driver is straight-out a neo-noir movie.
The reason I so consistently emphasize on this matter is because of the fact that it actually is, from the mystery-defining soundtrack to the whole concept of fighting a city crime in a sort of a straight-out bang-bang gun fashion is something that you would only see in a noir movie. Of course it's not black and white but, in all other directions, it's a noir movie.
Now the thing about this movie is that it is as personal as it can get to the life of a Taxi Driver, who happens to be played so naturally by De Nior as though you forget for a time-being, what great stature is on the screen and even for that matter, any other well-known actor who appears on the same screen within the elapsed time of the movie has even lesser value of a Hollywood-cultural specific preliminary existence.
My point is that, the movie revolves around the single most important character and his name is Travis Bickle who is kinda like a misfit among the group of people that he's normally seen to be associating with in the movie. To differ with this, as though in a way, to be contradicting this way of life of a regular taxi driver is Travis whose beliefs that whatever a man's occupation may be, he is at least entitled to do whatever he likes as long as it's right by one's own moral standards. This in a way gives him the courage at the first half of the movie to pursue a girl that he feels is the most beautiful thing in the world.
And as far as the script goes, I'd say it can be certified as an A-class script as for its precision to show exactly what kinda fellow Travis Bickel is and what his true intentions are.
The structure of the script is what I would call "A consistent trip along the highway and while on the way, taking few worthwhile side tracks and a turn-over."
The taxi driving sequences become the whole 'highway trip thing' while 'side tracks' refers to indulging on various other activities which are not similar yet are all inter-connected to each other, and the 'turn-over' refers to the point where he loses his girl due to an unfortunate side-track trip. Well that's a lot of analogy.
Coming back to the way things work in the movie, I also like the way the movie builds gradually around the character and also the way the character builds around the events that follow in the movie which when chronologically put together is just the consequence of one another.
Also in particular, I'd like to point out the fact that the way the crime-fighting or more of a bang-bang scene ended with a wide shot of the whole lot of gathering people felt like an homage to the late great movie "Chinatown" by Roman Polanski.