De Niro and Scosese, the best team work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2004)

You can feel the power of the character of Travis Bickle throughout the whole movie because the perfect performance of Robert De Niro. A few actors can delivery such a great work, Marlon Brando, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and recently Sean Penn. Of course you can feel the influence of the Actors Studio, the influence of Lee Strasberg.
Martin Scorsese have created an amazing relationship with De Niro, since Mean Streets until Casino. The highlights are Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas and Cape Fear.
Taxi Driver deliver us the story of Travis Bickle, a veteran of Vietnam who is trying to forget the past and set a new life, with the beautiful woman who that he is falling in love. This seem to be easy for a normal guy.
But No for Travis. He is tired of the wrong things in live, like pumps, prostitution, scum's, thieves, he wish he could live in a perfect world. He meet Iris (and incredible young Jodie Foster) a little girl who is pimp by Sport (the great Harvey Keitel)
And he believe that if he save her maybe he can start to change the world. In little words Travis is a Hero. And of course he is a misunderstood.
In the final scene I only could imagine in Amadis the Gauda, one of the greatest characters of the ancient's knight novels. Travis Bickel is a Knight.
And use the violence to fight and erase violence. An excellent story, with such a great edition. Receive the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1976. A great honor!
Paul Schrader wrote an excellent script and Scorsese, the Master, has directed one of his finest works
One of the greatest movies of all of times. 9/10.