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Taxi Driver (1976)
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Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a...
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Taxi Driver Movie Review by Ben  (4/27/2007) |
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I actually saw this for the first time this morning. I couldn't sleep and it was on at 4am. It was every bit as good as I was led to believe.
Comparing the two, I cannot see how this lost to Rocky at the Academy Awards. Scorsese fans will also agree that he deserved a directing award for this film. While De Niro and...
(complete Taxi Driver review by Ben)
| Taxi Driver Movie Review by Chris (6/10/2008) |
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PS- I had written a review of this movie on my old profile, this is my new profile. Thank you.
New York City cab driver Travis Bickle constantly, almost obsessively, reflects on the ugly corruption of life around him, and becomes increasingly disturbed over his own loneliness and alienation. In nearly every phase of his...
(complete Taxi Driver review by Chris)
| Taxi Driver Movie Review by Chris (5/31/2008) |
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New York City cab driver Travis Bickle constantly, almost obsessively, reflects on the ugly corruption of life around him, and becomes increasingly disturbed over his own loneliness and alienation. In nearly every phase of his life, Bickle remains a complete outsider, failing to make emotional contact with anyone. Unable...
(complete Taxi Driver review by Chris)
The best Scorsese...let's not dispute it.
De Niro as Travis Bickle is everything an anti-hero should be, misunderstood, even by us the audience, dark and twisted with an odd moral compass.
Jodie Foster is amazing as a young prostitute, Cybull Sheperd represents everything the idealized American woman should be, lovely and...
(complete Taxi Driver review by Jessica Film Junkie)
| Taxi Driver Movie Review by Charity (3/6/2007) |
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Okay--I just saw this for the first time last night.
Whoa. This film has left me nearly dumbfounded. I'm immensely impressed at how fully realized every aspect of this film is--characters, directing, acting, cinematography, costume...everything. It's just that good--a true classic.
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