Society

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 1999)

After reading many of the reviews for Taxi Driver, I feel I have to make one comment.
What amazes and baffles me about this movie is that basically, Travis Bickle is a murderer. If he would have killed Senator Palatine, then he would have been scum. But since fate has him killing "Scum", pimps and whorehousemen, he becomes a hero. In the eyes of society.
So in the end we are left with the message of it is not why you kill, but who you kill. I am still shocked my the poignancy of this statement whenever I watch this masterpiece.