A complete Fruit Salad film

Rating: 10/10 (31 March 2006)

Lee Strasbergs Fruit Salad speech can be used for De Niro's powerful performance as Travis Bickle. Scorsese and De Niro hold us captivated at Travis's transition throughout the film. Never jumping ahead of the thought process and never skipping the unspoken thoughts, they knows how to cut up and put in all the fruit before they have a fruit salad.
The words they speak are only the end product of a string of specific thoughts, thoughts play out before a single word is spoken, they think fast but speak slowly. Robert De Niro understands his relationships to his fellow characters, his objective what it is he wants,needs and must have he also knows his beats which are where to make acting choices.
But most importantly director and actor understand subtext and that is what completes a fruit salad. A powerful film, it's dark and riveting, diving deep within the human psyche. Travis Bickle commands the screen with his presence and De Niro truly makes Travis real, both physically and mentally. There was once a time when Acting was at it's most realist and actors didn't try to act they just did, they become and Taxi Driver was one of those times.
A rating of 10/10