The first shot of the film is a pair of eyes of Robert Denilu, looking at the feasting world outside the car window, which is also a hint from the director, suggesting that the next two hours are the subjective world of the protagonist, a construction New York is in his mind, so if we want to analyze the film thoroughly and deconstruct the world of the protagonist Travis, we must know the background of the story.
The background of the film's story is New York, the United States, where the Vietnam War has just ended. The failure of the Vietnam War has caused more and more people to have a distrust of the government and the entire social system.
From Travis’s interview, he was a veteran who just came off the battlefield, and he applied for a night taxi driver because he couldn’t sleep. I boldly speculate that there is a chance that Travis had PTSD because of the war. He belonged to one of the poorest groups of that era.
Not only that, but Director Martin kept using the camera to isolate Travis from the outside world. He lives alone and has the habit of writing a diary. His pastime is always watching pornographic movies, and the voice-over only has Travis's cold narration. Travis and the world It's like there's always a window in between.
And the real beginning of the story is that Travis is tired of being alone, he wants to fit in the world...
He met his goddess Betsy, who was his goddess, as bright and flawless as New York by day. But this goddess, even though he opened his heart and tried to accommodate him, still couldn't understand his jokes, and he didn't know anything about the pop culture in which the goddess lived, even when he took the goddess to watch pornographic movies in the theater where he was often lonely. , what you get is the contempt and alienation of the goddess.
The existence of the goddess seems to just tell Travis that he will never be able to integrate into the mainstream of society.
Travis, who is politically indifferent, because of the relationship with the goddess, he recognizes the presidential candidate Palantine, but in his world, Palantine only knows how to talk on TV, in front of the public, and publicize his ruling ideas. In the real world, scum, prostitutes, and underworld, these seem to only be hidden in the dark night of New York, hidden in the dark corners of New York, and cannot appear in the sight of these politicians, as if all darkness will only get off the politicians will happen later.
Iris, a young prostitute, is like a microcosm of New York at night. Travis once had a chance to save her, but he didn't grasp it. The leader of the prostitution organization, Sport, caught Iris and threw a crumpled bill, and this bill was like Travis's. A thorn in the heart, he wants to pull it out, but how can it be done?
One day, he was carrying a passenger who was going to shoot his cheating wife to death, Travis thought, maybe some problems could be solved with violence.
He bought a pistol, but he didn't know who the bullet was going to go to.
He hates the scum, scum, and trash of this society.
A heavy rain can wash away the filth of taxis, but what about the filth of society? By that politician who talks on TV every day? A wicked idea was born.
Before that, he acted bravely, shot the robber in the convenience store, and tried to save Iris, who had asked him for help, but this time he was rejected. The two rescues for others made him convinced that violence was the only solution. method, he strengthened a belief, maybe killing these politicians, these let him stay away from the battlefield, lose his self-worth, and fall into loneliness. Only politicians can unravel the stagnation in his heart.
And Palantine, the only politician he knew, decided to assassinate the presidential candidate.
Like a soldier who is about to go to war, he wrote his suicide note, polished his shoes, burned the flowers that symbolized love, and cut a rebellious mohawk haircut, as if he was spurning this dirty world and the one who was talking on the stage. And talk, hypocritical politicians.
It's a pity that he failed, and his rough actions still betrayed him, so he had to flee.
Since he can't change the society, the only one he can save is Iris. After a bloody shootout, the groom Sport, his accomplices, and the clients were killed by his guns one by one. Unfortunately, he was short of a bullet for himself, and could not draw a perfect end to the war.
The camera slowly pans from indoors to outdoors, but the bloody scene is the announcement of the annihilation of a dirty prostitution organization.
Traivs has become a crime-fighting hero, a figure celebrated in newspapers and magazines, and has he integrated into society? Director Martin gave an unequivocal answer in the negative.
Betsy, the goddess of bright and beautiful New York, hesitated to speak when she got off the bus, but in the end she just said, "how much" like a passenger, indicating that Travis still has a sense of isolation from this bright and beautiful New York. .
At the end of the film, it focuses on the eyes of Robert Deni Road again, looking at the feasting New York outside the car window, it is still the same as before, and Travis is still as lonely as before. , will he try to integrate into mainstream society again? Or he has accepted the fact that he has always been outside the mainstream of society.
We still haven't seen these eyes.
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