True 70's classic

Rating: 9/10 (27 August 2009)

Great film with a great actor....No one else could have played this part better than Robert De Niro as the crazed Viet Nam vet taxi driver trying to save the young whore played by Jodi Foster. In the film you feel the agony and frustration of Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle as he descends into madness towards the violent bloody ending. Jodi Foster as the young whore (Iris) seems to take a liking to Travis but does not seem to be interested in being saved from her life by him, or from her pimp played by Harvey Keitel. Keitel and Foster seem to share a bond, however perverted, that Travis does not seem to understand. Travis lives a life of fantasy of talking to himself in the mirror and seeing himself in dreams as some hero when he saves or thinks he saves Foster from her pimp. The ending of the film does portray Travis as a hero but again is it real or just a part of his fantasy? The only thing with this movie is the part played by Cybill Shepherd. She plays the part as a woman who works for a Senator running for President and seems a bit too high class to accept a date from a poor grungy Taxi Driver. In any case still a classic film....