![]() The "midly enjoyable" story you've been watching for 2h reveals itself as the big illusion it is, and you fell for it. Watching the movie was midly enjoyablen nothing special at first, then the end rolls around and suddenly EVERYTHING makes sense and falls into place at one, and it was under your nose all along. I honestly have to say it had been YEARS since I hadn't been that impressed with a movie after watching it. I was dead wrong in my prediction, and I see no way how I could've seen it coming. ![]() However, what really mattered were all those little details, details I didn't pick up on because they seemed irrelevant. I was dead wrong with my prediction, I payed attention to the big things and tried to predict the end. The whole story just FALLS INTO PLACE, like every single little detail you didn't pay attention to in the movie suddenly MAKES SENSE. ![]() When the end rolled around, I was fucking shocked. Honestly I watched that movie like 6months ago after someone recommended it to me. Maybe next time, he won't be so lucky.Īs for the parents letter, I don't think it looks like his handwriting, his is a lot more messy and child-like compared to Iris' parents'. What I'm saying is, it's highly likely that he'll do it again, because it's his nature, that added on to the fake respect from the media/public will undoubtedly cause him to do similar acts. With this in mind, Travis now thinks he did a good thing, leaving him with a feeling of honor and accomplishment at the very end. It's the thin line between being portrayed as the hero, or portrayed as the villain in the media, out of pure chance. It was luck that caused him to go with his second plan of action, which just so happened to be the 'right' way, it was also luck that there was no bullets in any gun to shoot himself with. Being praised by the media as this hero that saved Iris. He would be dead if he went through with it, but luck got the better of him, as he then decides to massacre everyone in the brothel. If you remember, he tries to kill Charles Palentine first, even with all those security guards around him. His obsession was to clean up the streets, in his mind that meant either go for Palentine, or go for the pimp. It just so happened that the pimp gave him 5 dollars, that he bumps into Iris and Betsy around the same time, and his frustration will Betsy's sudden disinterest in Travis caused him to see Palentine, who she works for, as evil. Whatever way you look at it, Travis is mental, he was going to kill no matter what. Basically, one of the hidden themes in Taxi Driver is simply luck. He even gives himself a big introduction in one of the first scenes when he walks into the room to apply for being a Taxi Driver, you can see a huge puff of smoke behind him just as he's entering the room, like he's a demon crawling out from hell, a force to be wreckened with, sort of a "Don't fuck with me" persona he's given himself.īut anyway, I'm babbling. Listen you fuckers, you screwheads." suggests that he's narrating his own memories, and telling it in his own perfectly twisted way. Here is a man who would not take it anymore, who would not, let. With Travis being present in literally every scene (Though you could say this was to symbolize his loneliness), the fact that there's even a scene when he stumbles on his own words when he says "Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. It makes sense to see the film this way, but I find it more interesting to see it as all the events actually did happen, but the way the film is shot suggests that we're watching his interpretation of what happened and only his. Well you could interpret it as having it all in his head, with it being so surreal the way everything plays out in that scene, and the many clues hidden throughout the film that suggests he's imagining it (Like when he gives back the 5 dollars to the guy who eventually get's his hand shot off, you can see Travis levitate towards him instead of walking) Plus all the shots of the city repeating themselves at times, a lot like a dream.
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