To be fair, I drove a cab before Uber was a thing and if I reported every illicit act I saw or heard over 12-14 hours I would be at the police station for another 12-14 hours.

I disagree with a lot of what you had to say here, but your analysis of the final sequence is on point. It's way too cheap and easy to discount it as a dream sequence. When you let the movie speak for itself and accept that it's really happening, it opens up the possibility that the film is a social critique of how "We" romanticize violence. Without that end sequence, it's just a critique of Travis' violent acts, but now it's about the violence we all encourage and celebrate.

I love that more and more people are analysing Travis' character This movie and character are as iconic as they come Good video my dude, keep improving

16:38 is this a joke? THEY PIMP KIDS!

I feel like Travis Bickle is the original incel - men like this obviously existed back then or there'd be nothing to draw from, but it's so prevalent in our culture now.

The shooting in the store.was 100% justified. I spent my entire career in law enforcement and I'm qualified to tell you that in a legal sense you're completely mistaken. "Hasn't hurt anyone yet". Bud you honestly CAN'T be serious, can you? If you're trying to come at this from a moralistic approach or ? But I'm honestly curious about how you arrived at your opinion. Do you honestly feel that it would.have been the more ethical decision to wait and fire upon the subject engaged in a violent armed robbery only AFTER he had shot and possibly killed (read MURDERED) a man simply trying to get through a days work? I look forward to reading your response and again I'm not trying to be any kind of asshole here. I just strongly disagree and am curious about how you arrived at your opinion. I have now finished the video and heard you state you had school work so I it's clear we have a very large difference in age and life experience. That likely has much to do with our difference of opinion.

14:50 you say that Travis says sport is the scum of the earth even though he only met him once. You don't need to know much about a pimp (a child pimp) to gain that kind of an opinion on. 16:50 you say that Travis shouldn't be praised by the public. He killed 3 pimps, and no one knows his personality. I'd call him a somewhat hero if all I knew about him was that he killed 3 pedo pimps. 13:10 he doesn't immediately shoot the criminal. He only shot the guy when he turned around to point the gun at Travis 16:30 but Travis does help iris. Your saying the pimps looked after iris? When Travis killed the pimps, the police returned iris to her family who were very thankful to have her back. Other than all that, cool video.

Perhaps I should be a little concerned how relatable I find Travis.

I noticed improvement from your last video in overall quality and structure. Good work.

Good work. An improvement over the last one. Keep it up!

This is a great analysis. Taxi Driver is one of those pictures that a lot of people love, but don't truly understand. You mentioned the score, but the camerawork is also very important in this movie; it tells the story in a much more subtle way. Possibly why so many folks miss the actual message. Again, fantastic video!

Nice video I hope you make more I'd love to see them

Hey hey!!! I just found your channel. Totally randomly, but I'm happy to be here. Good luck, keep up the great work and I can't wait to see what you'll cover next.

That was my exact train of thought that led me to be a taxi driver myself. Stayed up late and drove around then was like why not get paid for doing it too

absolute fear and disdain for abandonment, reckless behaviour, anger, even stalking and hypersexuality, everything you described, even the idealizing of certain people like politicians then discard and resent, these are all symptoms of borderline personality disorder. the gaslighting part is narcissistic but that goes with the territory in cluster B

I remember seeing the movie when VHS rentals first came out. It was considered 'cutting edge' with fanfare and some called for it to get an X rating..

Audio sounds sm better well done king

Travis character is very complex and I think you did a great job describing him

bro how do you only have 127 subs this is amazing!

I wouldn´t say that Mathew and his partners in crime cared about Iris.

Excellent analysis! Like you, I too found Taxi Driver to be underwhelming post my first watch. However, after rewatching it last night, for the first time in over a decade, I understood the subtleness behind the screenplay which is mirroring Travis' character & ticks to the viewers. In my opinion, Taxi Driver is the best character-driven story I have come across. Truly intriguing.

Liked and subscribed!

once a heard you admit when you were wrong i liked the video wish more creators would do this

nice video!

Good stuff.

One of my favorite films

Hey! Good job!!

I disagree. Travis did nothing because he was unarmed as soon as he was armed he took action. And to say that you should only shoot an armed robber once he has killed somebody and the pimps "looked after" her makes no sense. Good points about Travis being out of touch with reality and stalking Betsy. Also how he ignores all his own vices, but criticizes them in other people is a solid point.

It's similar to Dexter. If u scan Travis and the people he shot, they would all have probably similarly cognitively dissonant concepts of the world. They're specific neuroses either cause them to act out in the favor of a net public gain or deficit. Also Cabbies are often insomniacs and insomnia can cause schizophrenia or it's symptoms

I know the video is kinda old but a lot of missed points in my opinion. The bodyguard did not outsmart Travis. In fact Travis outsmarted him by giving him false information, false name and address. Also you could argue Travis never stood up in the beginning because actually in his mind the the guy's wife (Martin Scorsese) could also be considered scum for cheating.

I've seen recently a totally opposite interpretation of this character, as an alienated, noble and pushed into loneliness man, by a society unable to understand his ultimate goal to protect. The channel was one of those that are constantly arguing that modern masculinity is broken by it's core, by an ideological feminist conspiracy censoring it's true nature of a providing alpha. Well... Is because it's a really good movie and character, that you two are able to have these opposite interpretations . My personal opinion is somewhere in the middle, with a man who is trying really hard to do whatever he thinks is a good behaviour, but is struggling with his own egoistic, immature and coward impulses. The real problem here is how to separate the scum from the ones to protect. Who decide under what criteria what is wrong or right. And all this contradictions are a static constant in a world where law o morale are shifting and transforming with every generation.

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A grand hello from Germany, my sister and I find your new-on-UKposts energy extremely charming, keep up the good work, we will be watching

blessings!

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Other fun fact: Scorsese was only in that scene becuz the actor who was suppose to be in the scene was in a car accident on his way to filming

All the major players are still alive.. They should do a sequel 45 years later =p

Travis is my hero we so alike

literally me

This reminds me of almightyloli and spokstoon

this is basically the swansong of all soldiers and prisoners. they all experience the same disillusionment and detachment after joining back into society, they are lucky if they ever get any semblance of normality much less able to reintegrate. Some of them end up commiting violent acts to ensure that they go back into prison, the only home that they know at that point. im sure the movie is about way more than this but this is just a small thing to notice

nice

Odd, that Travis is supposed to be a former Recon Marine who served in combat. He should be better at surveilling people . . . .

11:15 thats not syrup it's peach schnapps

Not syrup, but peach brandy, if I'm not mistaken.

He’s literally me

TBH: The King of comedy. And... MAGIC (1978). I'd read the book, then watch the movie. That's just me.

The idea of Travis today is very real, only now he has an online community to lock in his violent, misogynistic fantasies.

About the store scene. Travis acted well, you don't wait for the guy pointing the gun to shoot first, that's not how self defense or self preservation works, the same if the gun is pointed at a person you want to protect. And he only killed criminals so he in fact did some city cleaning at last. He's a hero by chance but he's the only hero in the entire city.

Good analysis, but he shot sport in the gut, not the chest x

$400 70's money on guns sounds like a good investment

he was a rough looking 26 lol smh

Victim Posturing 101

So I've only heard of this movie and how travis decides to be a hero. Yeah... that's clearly not the movie lol. He sounds like am incel red pill type lol

No hes a based sigma and hes literally me

My God! Watched and listened about 7 minutes, and it's VERY, VERY LOW QUALITY, SUPERFICIAL! Practically, post teen analyzes at best!

I kinda disagree with some of the things you said about Travis Bickle yes he is kinda of bad guy but also good because he sees himself as the Hero hes like King Kong he means well and his intentions are well meaning and noble, but his actions are not hes not just some super unlikeable guy he's likeable because he is relatable and sad in a way and the more you know about him the more you secretly root for him

For a Taxi Driver he didn't talk much. Not too believable to be honest.

you should change your channel name to "and you would be correct"

I am him.

Tbh around 10:05 I'd probably not stop a man from shooting his cheating wife and the other guy either. If you've ever been cheated on, you know the feeling of "you know what man? Smoke their asses. Blast to the extreme." And there are probably some of you who read that last sentence and are about to take a 44 magnum to your own head. I know you know where I got that from. 😂 Edit: Oh my god, did he really just say the sex traffickers were the "only people who took care of iris?" Dude what is it with you defending muggers, cheaters and now SEX TRAFFICKERS?

No bruh just no. 🤡

Joe Rogan should get this guy on his podcast ASAP

this is great made me lol #based

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for'. I agree with the second part." ~Detective William Somerset 1:40 It's "vigilantism," not "vigilanteism." It's both the right and the duty of all free citizens because Natural Law is The People's weapon. To say that we "can't take 'the law' into our hands" is to say that "the law" serves the interests of tyranny ("above") and/or criminality ("below"). "As above, so below." It's a belief system that makes slaves of us all. 6:38 That's fairly close to how Billy Idol describes himself. 11:41 / 12:02 If he's left-eye dominant, he should shoot left-handed. 13:06 What's wrong with that? He was doing his civic duty right there. Natural Law is The People's weapon. 2A uber alles! 13:16 He intercepted an ARMED ROBBERY. Travis did nothing wrong in that scene. Here in Indiana, the average citizen would be on his side. Btw, in a featurette, DeNiro talks about how he gave Travis a Midwestern accent, imagining him being from there. He didn't specify which state. 13:19 How it does it make sense to wait until a social parasite has already maimed or murdered a law-abiding citizen before taking action? Police respond to crime after it happens. Vigilantes have the capability to be proactive in preventing crime (or at least reducing it). "Vigilante" is simply the Spanish word for "watchman." It used to be understood to be the civic duty of all free citizens. Only in recent times, when philosophical weakness, disenfranchisement, and reliance upon government and so-called "laws" (rather than the liberating purity of Natural Law) have become the status quo has the word "vigilante" been used in a negative context (and always by internationalist pinko cucks or other "useful idiots" that serve the interests of globalism and/or imperialism). Down with right-hand-path collectivist slave morality! 13:39 Why is that phrase written in the form of a title? And incorrectly at that! "We Are the People" would be the form of a proper title. There's no need to capitalize "the" unless it's at the beginning. Also, why does he fidget with his foot, then get all frustrated after he knocks the table over and busts his TV?! Like he wasn't able to predict that it would happen! So doggone childish! So don't think that I was praising everything about Travis. He has a duality about him. 14:06 Corresponding with his duality. Sort of a "lust versus compassion" thing going on. 15:10 Notice the pinky nail. Haysoos Quintana from 'The Big Lebowski' also had one of those. It's like an identifying mark for that subculture. 15:31 Unholy? Well, now that just sounds sanctimonious. What good does right-hand-path collectivist slave morality do for humanity anyway? All it does it promote defeatism, fatalism, and appeasement of all forms of tyranny and criminality. 15:45 The mohawk was an homage to The Filthy Thirteen. The Dirty Dozen were based on them. 16:33 They were all pimps and pedos (or hebephiles, whatever). They're not worthy of a single tear to be shed on their behalf and they all belong in a nameless grave. Hail Bickle! Ave vindicta! [cue 'Spear of Justice' theme] 16:50 That's especially surprising in a blue state where corruption and degeneracy run rampant "above" and "below." Tyranny attacks civilization "from above" while criminality attacks "from below." The oppressed have the right to "stand up" to their oppressors, do they not? 18:06 He chose the "good(ish)" ending by following the path of the (relatively) positive side of his duality. Imagine if he'd done like Walter Kovacs or Hugo Stiglitz and gone pro! By that I mean the character Hugo Stiglitz, not the actor he was named after.

Domt compare Joaquin Phoenix Joker to Taxi Driver that movie is horrible

In real life Bernhard Goetz became a hero, even to black people. At least until Al Sharpton emerged.

this video's name needs to be changed to "Taxi Driver's Terrifying Protagonist". Taxi DRIVER'S. apostrophe after the 'r' if it's possessive. I point this out not to be a smartass - I ain't no smrt - but to help the video seem more professional. when you start a video from an unknown channel, first impressions are everything in this game. "Taxi Driver's Terrifying Protagonist". just trying to help. but sincerely, best of luck out here!

Travis Bickle was more of an Antagonist, I'd thought. Sociopath, maybe textbook narcissist..

What a nonsensical view of Travis

Ive never understood the popularity and how much ppl liked this movie. I watched it a couple years ago and was bored to tears. Travis is terribly unlikeable and i thought that was the point. Unlike other “literally me”, Travis is a very realistic character which makes me worried for anyone who thinks hes just like them fr.

Midnight Cowboy is, in my opinion, a better film.

You got so much wrong here it's crazy.

Why does this analysis come off as the work of someone who lacks compassion and empathy? Travis is a good hearted man in a messy city which leads to him being confused and scared. Wish the OP would be a bit more professional

Typical sissy beta Gen Z review on a classic movie. Travis Bickle is one of the most legendary characters in movie history!

You just hate him because you ain't him.

Oh look another gen z reviewer focusing on Travis' negative traits and doing his armchair psychological analysis while missing the movie as an art piece. Stop overanalyzing every minute detail and enjoy the filmwork and the broader meaning.

Soy arguments tbh Travis didn't do anything wrong

You mis read the guy for sure.

good vid had the swag but no game sigma male