In a Nutshell. Mini reviews of movies old and new. No fuss. No spoilers. And often no sleep.

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Taxi Driver (1976)

Travis has a methodical and direct approach to life, but the bustle of the streets and the filth of the alleys make him sick with revulsion. His conscience eats at him daily as he watches it fall deeper into sin.
De Niro is utterly believable as the lonely night worker at odds with the city and its vices. His reasoning guides the film narrative; his words characterize the world in our mind and we become sympathetic to his subjective interpretations.
Scorsese's direction, De Niro's anti-hero and Bernard Herrmann's last ever score were a match made in film heaven. Essential viewing,

5 bouts of insomnia out of 5

3 comments:

cuckoo said...

:bearclap: :bearclap:

Couldn't have said it better.

5 all the way.

Marceline said...

5 signs that say organazized for me.

budarc said...

I took the Movie Theater Time Machine back to 1976 tonight and finally got to experience this on the big screen. It was the perfect setting on my way there; dark and rainy, I could see wisps of smoke and hear the faint strains of jazz playing in the background. The theater itself was half-filled with a bunch of low-life creeps like me. It remains one of the quintessential lonely/vigilante movies of all time.

5 sideway glances into the rearview mirror out of 5