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Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2007)

I try to see "The Last Temptation of Christ" but, i felt that the moment was not right, besides, it was very long and that time see something more easy, more "light". Like 2 years before i have the choice to see "New York, New York" ... and at this time is a movie that i have not idea of why i don't watch it and i want to see. So, i love movies, and i don't know who is Scorsese ...i mean , his work? So, one day decided to see a movie which critics - seems to me- support and hate. "Taxci Driver", that NY tale that we never going to forget, or well, not me.
"Taxi Driver" is a tale about repression, about that human been who is bad for the same bad things that the human been do. The case here is about Travis, a Taxi Driver, who has a lonely life, and wants to stays busy working in his car, watching the girl he loves and dirty porn movies at the cinema. But, due to the circumstances, little by little, our character going to transform, not in a good way, although not in a worthless way. We see in the eyes of Travis the violence, prostitution and delinquency. As we see it for his eyes, we feel his own perspective of this things. This perspective is of disgust for the thing that he called "filthy". For other side, he is in loved of a woman who helps to a important politician. So, we find a man, at first, disinterested for the politics. Then, when his life turns violently by all this facts, his perception of life is centered in , what he same called as "social cleaning" or something like that, and this is not good as he thinks, because is a confused been. This smell bad. "Taxi Driver" is hard to forget for this (And more!).
"Taxi Driver" treats an indispensable topic for a human been today, because the character of Travis is the clear portrait of thousand of confused people, like me and like you. Travis, is not a bad person, he has never been it. Travis - and i think that is the most importance topic of all - is bad for a society that turned him in this way. So, the blame of all is Travis? "Taxi Driver" manages every indispensable topic of a society like this: Politics, sex, violence and corruption. the vision of Travis is really important and truly, cant be ignored. Besides to be one of the cinema characters that i never going to forget. All his perceptions are of a desperate lonely man. My God! How hard but wonderful this movie is.
Robert De Niro (As rare ... Wonderful!), Cybill Shepard, Jodie Foster (After "Bugsy Malone" of Alan Parker) and Harvey Keitel are the most important performances, all of it great. This, my first Scorsese movie tell me how good is the vision of the famous director. Written by Paul Schrader with a soundtrack that we cant forget - although that the ending don't convince me much. "Taxi Driver" is that movie that we cant forget, and for this maybe turned to be in an instant classic. And for this, and to for its topic, i think that this is a wonderful movie that people should see for a best perception of society and recalled and famous message of "The human been born free, the society corrupts it".
Another necessary masterpiece for our lives.
*Sorry for the mistakes ... well, if there any.