Skewed from being off.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Just as we saw in Straw Dogs a natural thrist for the kill is exhibited in Taxi Driver. As a viewer sitting down to watch a violent film there is an expectance to see some blood fly. However, for Taxi Driver I do not feel that that was the case in the delivery. Travis' osbervations of the world he lived in was at an extreme decline. As he said "the streets were/are overflowing with trash and filth."

There should be a sort of honor to be paid to characters that can develop fully with a concern larger than their own literal life. Travis- to the violent seeking viewer would be peged as the cult icon. However, to more deeply uderstand his role in society Travis needed to explode. The personal build up of being another Vietnam vet tossed back into society, expected to file back in line and essentially be another face in the crowd. What can be said for those individuals who pulled it off? A: They should be the cult icon, because they are rarer and less defined.

Taxi Driver has a lot to say about the quality of society in a quantative setting. The people are a mass and the quality is dinger with every step. Travis' character stepped out of his already disposition of serving his country to serve his city by personally being a Christ figure in saving Iris (the mass followers/ hookers) and literally getting away with contemplated murder (blood shed). Then, rose from his death (because for a moment Travis shot himself 3 times and was really alive after the last empty round)- to make a simple statment that a societal life is not for sale, wether it is a politicial campaigner or a down on luck runaway.