When a soldier loses the role of "soldier", who does he play?

Sandrine 2022-04-21 09:01:11

This film is fascinating, perhaps because of the "confusion" about life it reflects.

After the war, the soldier was so bored that he couldn't sleep at night, so he became a night taxi driver and could watch porn movies while he went to work

. The city is so dirty, the rubbish in the streets, the beasts of the night, the prostitutes, the drunkards, the sodomites, the drug dealers...corrupt...he said to the (probably) future president: The only thing that displeases the city is that the city is so dirty, like a sewer , the president should wash them away like rain. Being a taxi driver gradually became boring, and even picking up a conversation was coldly received.

He felt that he should go somewhere, that one should not only care about himself in his life, but be the same as everyone else. People on the street were kissing, and he found a beautiful girl on a date. They drank coffee and the girls listened to Chris Christopherson; he bought records for the girls. The soldier doesn't listen to music, and his tape recorder is broken; the soldier takes her to the porn movies he watches most often. The girl ran away, saying that they were not from the same world, and never saw him again.

Soldiers set out to "prove" themselves, buy guns, exercise, and play a spy whose goal is to assassinate the future president. He thinks that the president is just talking empty words, the city is still so dirty, full of deceit, hurt, and everyone around is so cold, especially women...
He wants to save a girl who stumbled into prostitution, but the girl says she likes it life; it doesn't matter, he wants to save her anyway. His assassination failed, so he killed the people around the prostitute girl...
He thought he was going to die, but no, the newspaper made him a "hero", and even the beautiful woman who failed in his pursuit came to see him...

Soldier Now a driver, he drives without a destination.

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Extended Reading
  • Heloise 2021-10-20 18:59:02

    "In reality, we are all trying to find a noble and clean life. At the same time, we inevitably do dirty things and breed filthy thoughts. Because we understand our own filth, we have the same thoughts towards others, so we will Treating others indifferently and protecting ourselves carefully, so we have become isolated islands. Isolated and lonely."

  • Coby 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    After watching it, I cried for a long time and was depressed

Taxi Driver quotes

  • Travis Bickle: [walks up to Sport] Hey Sport. How ya doin'?

    Sport: Okay, okay my man, how... Where do I know you from, man?

    Travis Bickle: I don't know. How's everything in the pimp business, huh?

    Sport: Do I know you?

    Travis Bickle: No. Do I know you?

    Sport: Get outta here. Come on, get lost, huh.

    Travis Bickle: Do I know you? How's Iris? You know Iris.

    Sport: No, I don't know nobody name Iris. Iris? Come on, get outta here, man.

    Travis Bickle: You don't know anybody by the name of Iris?

    Sport: I don't know nobody name Iris!

    Travis Bickle: No?

    Sport: Hey, go back to your fuckin' tribe before you get hurt, huh man. Do me a favor, I don't want no trouble, huh. Okay?

    Travis Bickle: You got a gun?

    Sport: Get the fuck outta here, man.

    [flicks his cigarette at him]

    Sport: Get outta here.

    [kicks him]

    Travis Bickle: Suck on this.

    [Travis shoots him with a revolver in the stomach and walks away]

  • Wizard: In the middle of the bridge she changes her pantyhose.