The Process of going mad.

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2010)

This is one of the best films that I have ever seen. It delves into the seedy underworld of New York City in the 70's and follows the mental self destruction of a restless cab driver. Robert De Niro is chilling as Travis Bickle, a cab driver who finds the city and its inhabitants to be sickening and slowly begins to plot a plan to do something about it. As a director Scorsese shines. He really creates a world where the viewer can understand the violent and hateful ideas that Travis begins to have. Scorsese also makes a disturbing cameo in the middle of the movie as a troubled man who gets in Travis' cab only to have him stop in front of the apartment that his wife is having an affair in. He then describes to De Niro's character how he is going to kill her by shooting her with a 44 magnum, which is one of the many guns De Niro's character buys later in the film to carry out his ill fated plan. Scorsese ends the film in a way that could be interpreted differently by different people. To some people that last few scenes are either the dying fantasy's of Travis Bickle, yet others interpret it as the ultimate ironic ending where the man who was attempting to commit an act that would cause him to be hated by the public ends up screwing it up only to become a self-less hero who is responsible for saving a 12 year old girl from the hell of prostitution.
My favorite line is when Harvey Kietel's character Sport says "I used to have a pony, on Coney Island. It got hit by a truck."