Powerful.

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 1999)

Taxi Driver is the perfect cinematic example of a lonely soul. Travis Bickle is so alone it drives him crazy. Bickle tries to understand everything, but can't figure out anything because his judgement is so completely blurred. Bickle's idea of a date is dinner and a porno film. Robert De Niro turns in one of the greatest performances of his career and Martin Scorsese is at the top of his form. Paul Schrader's script is deep with character development in the right areas. I find the most interesting aspect of Taxi Driver is the Bickle characters obsession with the women in is life. Cybill Shepard plays the Madonna and Jodie Foster is the underaged whore. It seems like Bickle treats each woman as the other, showing just how complicated Bickle has become in his self pity and loneliness. All this frustration causes Bickle to comprehend an act of violence, his first attempt, he chickens out. Then out of more anger because the first act of violence didn't pan out, the second attempt at violence is extreme and insane. Scorsese, De Niro and Schrader have created one of the most interesting and complicated films in cinema history. One of the great films.