a. Laughs (10/100)
b. Thrills (27/100)
c. Passions (24/100)
d. Musicals (12/25)
e. Cheers (18/100)
f. 10 Top 10 (33/100)
So I recently watched the film Taxi Driver featuring Robert De Niro and a young Jodie Foster. For those of you who don't know what movie this is, it's where the lines "Are you looking at me? Well are you?" Come from.
Anyway, don't read the rest of this if you don't want to know what happens.
Taxi driver is a film about Travis, a young man (who is hinted to be a Vietnam vet), living in New York. In order to cope with his insomnia, he gets a job as a taxi driver. The film shows life at the time as viewed by an the average intelligence, somewhat socially inept Travis as he deals with people like Betsy (A campaign worker for a fictional senator) and the scum he drives around at night. Much of the story lies around his alienation after seeing this new world (He attempts to assassinate the senator) and his decision to fight this crime and take matters in his own hands, including freeing a young prostitue (Jodie Foster's character) from her pimp and convincing her to return home. He's injured in the process, people hail him as a hero for trying to clean up the city. Despite this, Travis merely returns to being a taxi driver, unsure what's ahead for him.
I definitely understand why the film made the list. As a scorsece film it has strong filmography elements in the views he chooses to shoot from, as while as the locations used. Plot-wise, it brings forward the issue of alienation of vets as while as the two sides of society, both of which he does not belong to and which require fixing. Yet despite this knowledge of flaw, Travis becomes aware that he is uncapable of fixing it all.
So that's another movie off the list. :) We'll see what I manage to do next.
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