Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver

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Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" presents the viewer with a disturbing and violent vision of urban America in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. Travis Bickle the protagonist, is a Vietnam veteran who finds himself adrift in the urban wasteland of the 1970s. He suffers with many psychological problems such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder, and isolation in result of the vietnam war. Travis is a late night taxi driver who drives to any part of New York city (including the ghetto), which distracts him from his chronic insomnia. As a taxi driver, he sees many crimes all over the city such as robbery, seediness, destitution, corrupt government, and criminality. Like a soldier walking the streets of vietnam, he envisions himself as a cleanser of scum in his surroundings. A vigilante who needs to rid New York city of all the bad guys. Travis meets with a “traveling salesman” who sell his multiple guns including a smith and wesson. Along with the guns, he also buys a carrying case similar to what the cowboys use. Along with that, Travis also has a belt buckle that he always wears along with a pair of cowboy boots next to his bed at his house. His way of becoming a vigilante is based off a cowboy. A cowboy is someone who upholds the law illegally. In Travis’s mind cowboys are not criminals, they do …show more content…

She did not say much and then her pimp came in and threw a twenty dollar bill on his seat and they left. Eventually, Travis ran into Sport who is the pimp of the girl Travis had previously met. He buys some time and pays for a room. He now knows her name is Iris and she is only twelve years old and runs away from home. She should be at home hanging out with boys and going to school rather that being a prostitute. Iris preferred to be a prostitute and said that sport loved her even though he is way to old for her. In result, Travis inner vigilante comes

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