Listen as well as watch

Rating: 9/10 (2 September 2015)

Writing music for film is truly an exceptional art-form but one, if done correctly, that is rarely lauded outside of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Case in point: Taxi Driver. Bernard Herman's score for Taxi Driver is so deliciously haunting and descriptive that if it weren't so perfectly written and executed it would pop out of the film and take your attention away. Herman's character themes become such an integral part of their development that you don't realize how interwoven the score is to each portrayal until the film is finished and the music begins to linger in your memory - bringing with it the appropriate visual. Just as he did with the Alfred Hitchcock films he'd scored, Herman creates the iconic aural colorization that makes you wonder how the story could have ever existed without it.