I'm in the best mood right now, because who cares about fucking Corona, when I just found taxi drivers in good quality on YouTube for you? Taxi Driver at your leisure, to watch it again. What a movie! I mean: WHAT A MOVIE!
Today - on 8.4.2020 - I found a link to Taxi Driver on YouTube in good quality. Check it out quickly, because this link will be deleted soon. In this case, just enter the movie title directly on YouTube and find a new link to Taxi Driver. Got it? Let's go to the movie: "Are you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here." The truest line in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver! Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) has this terrible habit of wanting to make contact with other people. Everywhere around him the most different people succeed - only he remains excluded. Taxi Driver seems to me like a series of failed attempts to make contact. Every single attempt goes wrong. Once Travis asks a girl out and takes her to a porn movie. Then he tries small talk, but with a Secret Service agent. Finally he tries to make friends with an underage prostitute (but she is afraid of Travis). He is so completely alone that the question - to whom he is talking - is directed at himself: Tavis asks himself in front of the mirror. This loneliness is the heart of Taxi Driver and this makes it one of the most powerful films ever. Perhaps it is also because of his loneliness that we perceive Travis as a film character who seems to come from another star. Hasn't everyone of us ever felt just as lonely? But we were able to deal with it better. Scorse's movie was shown in the cinema in 1976 and yet it never really became familiar to me. Every time I saw it, it tore me away into Travis' world of loneliness and anger. It's an underworld. It's an upside-down world. You can read that the screenwriter Paul Schrader was inspired by John_Ford's The_Searchers. It's true. In both films a man gets lost in his odyssey to help a woman. But in both films the women don't want this help at all! As in the original, Robert De Niro plays a war veteran. Travis was traumatized during the Vietnam War. His attempt to help twelve-year-old hooker Iris (Jodie Foster), who is "held" by her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel), ends in a bloodbath, which is unique even in Scorsese's work. Iris really wants to be connected to sports! A lonely man, a seeker, sets out to help a woman, although she does not ask him to. This central plot of Taxi Drover is mirrored in all the parallel plots of the film. Travis' feelings towards black people, his strange sexuality (let's just replace the term love with pornography), his hatred of the big city... Scrosese and Schrader form a character full of rage and hate. A fearful person. Through the windshield of his taxi he sees the hookers and pimps on the streets of Manhattan. Like in slow motion. Scorsese manages to portray the inner life of Travis without any dialogue. His purpose is to give us Travis' perspective. We become Travis - and yet we feel quite lost in Taxi Driver. A lot was discussed, according to the final scene. Is it real or imaginary? Does Travis survive the shooting? Or do we perceive the last thoughts of a dying person? It's hard to tell and in the finale Taxi Driver seems more like an opera and less like a drama. Everything is expressed through emotions. Taxi Driver is a film about redemption, not about damnation. Travis no longer exists in reality but in his mind. In the end, this has given him his own peace.
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