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Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1976
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 113 min.

Hallucinatory, mesmerizing and strikingly violent, Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader's plunge into the twisted psyche of a cab-driving Vietnam vet offers a nightmarish voyage into the seedy underbelly of pre-Giuliani NYC.

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Hallucinatory, mesmerizing and strikingly violent, Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader's plunge into the twisted psyche of a cab-driving Vietnam vet offers a nightmarish voyage into the seedy underbelly of pre-Giuliani NYC. In perhaps his greatest performance, Robert De Niro brilliantly incarnates the lonely and deeply troubled Travis Bickle, a walking shadow adrift in a sea of "filth", surrounded by random violence, racial tension, porno theatres and prostitution. Desperately striving to be a "normal person", Bickle becomes obsessed with "saving" a pre-teen prostitute (Jodie Foster) from her manipulative, jive-talking pimp (Harvey Keitel)—an act of redemption which demands a blood sacrifice. Tempering the bleakness and darkness of Schrader's script—which drew inspiration from John Ford's The Searchers, Robert Bresson's Pickpocket and the diaries of would-be George Wallace assassin Arthur Bremer—with a seductively noir-ish visual style and a romantic, luxurious score by the great Bernard Herrmann (completed only days before his death), Scorsese created one of the cinema's most searing portraits of incipient madness.

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