Topic: Taxi Driver: how did you feel after you first watched it?
+Anonymous A — 13.6 years ago #18,249
I felt terribly depressed and exhausted. It was a fantastic film, and one of Marty's best, IMHO, but the film is still harrowing to this day. Especially that last look De Niro gives us, a mixture of horror, pain, and psychosis. Frankly, the film was and still is disturbing, even though Iris got a "happy ending". How about you?
+Anonymous B — 13.6 years ago, 38 seconds later[T] [B] #223,047
idk
+Anonymous C — 13.6 years ago, 29 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[T] [B] #223,048
The single greatest film ever made, and De Niro's best performance.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 13.6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #223,050
@previous (C)
Nowadays when I rewatch it I find it strangely relaxing, maybe because Travis' world is familiar to me on a subconscious level, even if I don't identify with him on a personal level. The soundtrack is very therapeutic; it's as if the film's music is offered to console the average person who has to live through such miserable times.
Nowadays when I rewatch it I find it strangely relaxing, maybe because Travis' world is familiar to me on a subconscious level, even if I don't identify with him on a personal level. The soundtrack is very therapeutic; it's as if the film's music is offered to console the average person who has to live through such miserable times.
+Anonymous D — 13.6 years ago, 6 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #223,053
Was it a happy ending?
·Anonymous A (OP) — 13.6 years ago, 4 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #223,059
@previous (D)
I felt somewhat mixed to it at first, but with rewatchings I tend to have a better response to it. Have you never seen it?
I felt somewhat mixed to it at first, but with rewatchings I tend to have a better response to it. Have you never seen it?
+Anonymous E — 13.6 years ago, 42 seconds later, 15 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #223,060
@OP
I don't know. He felt the need to do something and he did. I didn't feel so much depressed as I did a WTF feeling after that shoot out. I liked the narration of the letter by Iris' dad. It was a nice touch. It made things that much more real.
I don't know. He felt the need to do something and he did. I didn't feel so much depressed as I did a WTF feeling after that shoot out. I liked the narration of the letter by Iris' dad. It was a nice touch. It made things that much more real.
·Anonymous C — 13.6 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #223,063
@223,053 (D)
> Was it a happy ending?
Nobody knows. It's not clear whether the final scene (where Iris is saved, Travis is a media hero, and he coolly blows off Betsy) is real, or just another part of his diseased imagination. Scorsese did an amazing job of making the final half an hour so surreal that you just don't know how much of it actually happened, and how much is just Travis' imagining what he wanted to do when he had the chance with the Senator, but lost his nerve (Scorsese uses the same technique in Shutter Island).
It's simply a masterpiece.
Dave
> Was it a happy ending?
Nobody knows. It's not clear whether the final scene (where Iris is saved, Travis is a media hero, and he coolly blows off Betsy) is real, or just another part of his diseased imagination. Scorsese did an amazing job of making the final half an hour so surreal that you just don't know how much of it actually happened, and how much is just Travis' imagining what he wanted to do when he had the chance with the Senator, but lost his nerve (Scorsese uses the same technique in Shutter Island).
It's simply a masterpiece.
Dave
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