Disturbing and well-crafted docudrama...

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2002)

1st watched 7/6/2002 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Martin Scorsese): Disturbing and well-crafted docudrama about a taxi driver who feels compelled to take matters into his own hands and clean-up the "filth" surrounding him. Deniro is excellent as the disturbed Travis Bickle and carries the picture. Scorsese's direction is unusual but effective and although at times we don't feel like the story is going anywhere we don't care because this film is more about the life of a disturbed man rather than a "movie" about the life of a disturbed man(if you know what I mean). A very realistic depiction of a man acting out what his feeling's are without holding back anything. On this level the film works because it's not preaching at us but letting us observe and come to our own conclusions.