Touching, Compelling, & Relevant Vigilante and Societal Issue Movie

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2018)

I was touched by this movie. A man like Bickle could easily exist and I think does exist in most of us. He came back from his service in Vietnam in his 20s. He comes back to dingy, decrepid streets littered with trash, prostitutes and drug dealers. He gets an honest long hours job of driving a cab. He tries to assimilate normally, but he is unnerved by the sinning and corruption going on. Politically that is too. He tries to create a relationship but he fails. Finally, Bickle being already mentally unstable and on the brink of doing something crazy meets the sweet 12 year old prostitute who wanted to get away from the sleazy life of crime. By this time Bickle is destined to rescue this girl and teach her that what she is doing is no good. So he does what he needed to do and kills the sleazy scumbags, and the girl thankfully got sent home. It's a shame Travis was suicidal, however, at least he took a few monsters with him. Great message in my opinion.