Yesterday i rewatched one of the greatest movies of all time. A true masterpiece of the cinema. I strongly suggest everyone to watch it if you hadn’t Taxi driver
The plot of the film revolves around a taxi driver in New York, Travis Bickle, who is clearly mentally disturbed and works night shifts because he suffers from insomnia after returning from Vietnam. He himself, of course, is unaware of his plight, but considers himself the only balanced person in a dirty (literally and figuratively) town. The making of the film began when Brian De Palma introduced Paul Schrader to Martin Scorsese. Scorsese had then conceived the idea of making a film, which would create in the viewer the feeling of being in a suspended state between sleep and wakefulness. Schrader agreed to write the script. The lead role was initially offered to Dustin Hoffman, who turned it down because he thought the film was too steeped in paranoia. De Niro, who eventually got the part, took method acting, got a taxi driver's license and did the job for two weeks in New York. In addition, he recorded the speech of soldiers from the Midwestern states of the USA, to study their pronunciation. In my opinion, this is De Niro's best performance, but when we're talking about an actor of this caliber, I don't know how meaningful the comparisons are. A big revelation of the film was the then-teenage Jodie Foster, who then won her first Oscar nomination. It is also worth mentioning the wonderful music of B. Herman, whose Taxi Driver was to be the last work. The film and especially some of its many violent scenes caused a scandal when it was released. It is very telling that when it was screened at the Cannes festival it was yukha, although it won the Palme d'Or, because Tennessee Williams, president of the jury that year, stepped on his foot. Personally, I find the film's violence tolerable by today's standards. What may bother you is the larger climate, as it is a study in quagmire and solitude, without any crack of light, without any great universal message. Here I also want to leave a warning about sensitive content. Foster, the main supporting character of the film, plays a minor, who is sexually exploited and betrayed by a guy (Harvey Keitel in a fantastically disgusting performance).
