"You talking to me?"

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2016)

In this Martin Scorsesse film, we get to know Travis Bickle. Travis is an unstable Vietnam war veteran, who now works as a taxi driver. During one of his night routines, he meets a young girl, who is by his believe a girl forced into prostitution, and now he wants to save her and make the world a better place.
Like I have said this movie is directed by Martin Scorsesse. Scorsesse is an amazing director. I haven't seen a lot of him, yet, but I really want to see them all. He uses a lot of steady cam. My favorite style. To my knowledge there was no shaky cam. This can be obnoxious at times, so luckily this wasn't there. The cinematography is very pretty. This was done by Micheal Chapman. He has worked with Scorsesse for a couple of other times. The clothing and clothes overall were great. There are iconic items in there (the clothes of De Niro) The make-up was fine, just the fake blood. It really looked fake. the colors just didn't fit. But I have read a reason for this, so I understand why they did this. The pacing of this movie is fantastic. It starts of kind of slow, but then near the end it speeds up. And due to this you gets this tense feel, which is very good. The music is very interesting chosen, in the beginning, I was a bit skeptical about it, it looked to me that it didn't fit, but at the end of the movie I thought that it was a very well chosen soundtrack, which fitted the theme.
The acting is flawless. I absolutely adored the acting of De Niro. Robert De Niro played Travis, the taxi driver. He was a very interesting character, because he is so unpredictable. I liked that they first showed us his daily routine, how he talks to his friends and so on. But then how he gets paranoid, and crazy. You can notice it actually pretty early on in the movie, and this may sound stupid to a lot of you, when he looks at the glass of soda in the cafeteria. And the camera focuses on it from above. For me this showed who Travis is, by just a glass of soda. And that is one of the reason why I loved this movie, how they could just show a entire character in one shot. This was/is one of Robert De Niros best movies ever in my opinion (havn't seen Raging Bull) The next person I am going to discus is Jodie Foster. This is one of her first roles, if not her first. She was fantastic too. She played the prostitute, called Iris. De Niros character wants to save her, so she can have a better live, a normal live. Her character was less interesting as Travis, but I still liked her though. Jodie Foster was convincing, and had a very good portraying. Now the group of taxi drivers. They were all very realistic. They felt real, and looked like real taxi drivers. The last person I am going to talk about played the character called Betsy. Cybill Shepherd played her. In this movie, she has a sort of relationship with Travis. What I really liked was the chemistry between them. And how she helped him to get driven of the edge, so he will snap. Well, she did it without the knowledge about it, but still.
The script was written by Paul Schrader. It is a very good script. Here are also Iconic elements, like the "You talking to me?' scene, but this isn't my favorite scene, although they portray really good how crazy he has already become. My favorite scene is when Travis picks up a pedestrian, who is ultimately going to kill his wive. I really liked this scene, because it sort of showed us how Travis will be. It was a tensful scene, with very good dialogue, that is why this scene stood out to me. I didn't even realize that it was Scorsesse himself playing that man, and now I am surprised to know that. It was very well acted on his side, and of course on De Niros side as well. The narration in the beginning of the movie is good. By using this, we get to know Travis better. And we can also see inside of his head, which also helps with portraying the craziness.
If you combine all of the good elements I have just said, you will get a dark, realistic portraying of a man who is losing his mind. But with great cinematography, acting and writing. I absolutely loved this movie. It is one of those movies, that only get better, the more you think about them. I would definitely recommend watching this classic!