Taxi Driver is an experience

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2017)

Taxi driver is a movie that delivers a cinematic experience like very few. It follows the character Travis Bickle in a 70's New York filled with drugs, sex and drink which he hates and wishes never existed. However unfortunately for him it does and he wants to do as much as he can about it and he attempts to but whilst trying to live a 'normal' life. However he soon realises that people aren't what he thought they were.
This constant struggle in accepting society torments him and the audience throughout the movie with tense on screen acting from DeNiro and the sexy yet disturbing score by Mr Hermann.
Altogether whilst this film isn't as simple and playful as the likes of other Scorsese movies such as Casino or Goodfellas, it's certainly one that requires more thought and complexity to the nature of humanity, and for that reason I personally prefer this picture to the rest of his.