"Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change."
There are conflicts that crop up about Travis' marine background, like for example in the earlier part of the film he gets to know a woman called Betsy. They go out for a couple of times but, it then gets rough and this plays a big part to his head. He turns into a dark void and his journey becomes lost.
In his tormented mind and complete loneliness he has been influenced when a man want to kill his wife and her lover. This is when his downfall beings and his increased aggression to the city of New York.
"June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight."
This film Shows so many twists and turns through your mind and you really feel sorry for Travis as he has changed throughout the whole film to a kind and decent man into a violent menace but however he manages to stay focused on his one goal and mission that was on his mind and is now cleared. Taxi Driver is one of my most favourite films and delivers a clear message to me, however the message may differ for different people.
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