Ready to explode

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2005)

This is one of my all time favorites. I still remember how I was glued to the TV set while watching this movie and going through the same emotions as the taxi driver. Maybe I liked the movie so much because I was going through a similar phase in my life; "The phase of utter despair, loneliness and a search for the purpose of life" which I guess everyone goes through at some point or the other. Maybe the movie is so powerful and involving that I just felt that I was going through a similar phase.
Robert De Niro gave a top notch performance and Martin Scorsese directed it with a passion. The movie moves at a leisurely pace highlighting the mundane and repetitive aspect of a taxi driver's life and gives you enough time to get into the skin of the characters and experience what they are going through.
Although 'are you talking to me' is the most famous scene of the movie but I can never forget the scene in which De Niro starts rocking the TV set by his foot and then just lets it fall and crash. That scene really shook me and for that moment I was Travis himself identifying with all his anger and frustrations.