Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese · 1976 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Travis Bickle, an insomniac veteran, takes night shifts driving a cab through a New York he finds filthy, and writes down what he sees. He fails at a date with a campaign worker, starts buying guns, and fixes on a twelve-year-old girl he decides needs rescuing. Loneliness arming itself into a savior fantasy.

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• influenced by ↑ Notes from Underground
  Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 CE · Novel
• reworks ↑ The Searchers
  John Ford · 1956 CE · Film

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