How a IGNORANT MAN turned into a MAD ONE!!

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2018)

Honestly, at first, by no means did I like the character, Travis, starred by Robert De Niro. His ignorance totally made him nothing but a hippie full of stupidity and embarrassment. Neither his dating with Betsy nor his habitual pause with that silly smile could I tolerate for any more in the scene, yet this proves that Robert De Niro did make a great job on the acting. HOWEVER, at the last scene when Travis leaving a cold and numb "goodbye" to Betsy without taking the fee for driving, I found Travis my favorite character in the film. Travis is a sarcastic admonishment for modern people who seemingly aren't ignorant, and makes this movie an art of sarcasm. Travis was credited as a hero for saving Iris from a prostitute because of his strong intolerance of "the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit", so he "stood up". Compared with Palantine, as a symbol of most modern people, all his actions remain watchwords, slogans, and in speeches. All we modern people care about is where the stress should be put in the sentence, "We are the people", leaving the true problem gradually turning an ignorant and innocent man into a mad one. Finally this madman committed a serious crime which is so called "a hero act" to modern people. See, how sarcastic is this? We all have madness to these problems, yet we hide it instead and presume on some guy like Travis to stand out. In my perspective, what Travis has done and become aren't hero things but nothing more than what a morbid society forces him to do. He brutally killed three men in a federal society and is crowned as a hero. See how mad this society is to the useless politicians. Taxi Driver and taxi drivers, these ignorant people, are both reminders for we modern people not to just maintain the situation but to reform and reinforce it.