From the very first shot of the film, the film has gripped my soul firmly, as if waves of electricity were flowing through my body, burning every nerve and every cell. With the sound of the heavy and tense intermittently sharp orchestral music, the exhaust of the taxi fills the entire screen, creating a chaotic haze, which brings an incomparable sense of depression and loss. Then the melodious, soothing and slightly sad saxophone jazz sounded, and the changing light and shadow flowed on the face of the protagonist Travis, flickering, and his eyes were as lonely and deep as the sea of stars. The streets of New York, which have been raining, are still feasting and feasting, and the swaying car windows are full of brilliance, adding a bit of loneliness and emptiness under the glitz and hustle of the city. 1. Lonely in the city "Taxi Driver" tells the story of Travis, a small taxi driver who lives in the metropolis of New York. The big environment and the small characters themselves form a strong contrast and conflict. Just like our age, small people are easily swallowed up by the big environment, lose themselves in the big environment, and then feel breathless depression and loneliness. Travis, he sleeps all night, lives alone and drinks heavily. He goes to porn theaters to relieve depression, rents out all night to pass the time, writes diaries to chat to comfort himself, and talks to himself in front of the mirror, like a lonely patient pulling himself. The large monologues in the film allow us to directly perceive Travis's inner world, he said: "Loneliness has been with me all my life, whether it is in the bar, in the car, on the sidewalk or in the store, it is in hot pursuit, I have no idea. There's nowhere to run, I'm a lonely person." We can more or less see some shadows of ourselves in Travis, empty inside, lonely and lonely, with nowhere to put our souls. We choose to indulge ourselves, sing in the bar every night, and numb ourselves with alcohol; we choose to let ourselves go, wander aimlessly on the sidewalk, get on a bus that goes nowhere, and walk into a house that may be attacked at any time. Looted store. No matter what we do, loneliness always follows us. two. Dirty under the bustling "Taxi Driver" was filmed in New York, USA in the 1970s. It looks like a bustling scene of high-rise buildings, busy traffic and feasting lights, but it is actually a flood of filth and filth. In Travis's diary, he wrote: "Everyone has everything at night, whores, sluts, thieves, queens, fairies, poisonous bugs, drug dealers, perverts, monsters, and sometimes a rain can make these people The scum disappeared from the streets.” When presidential candidate Palantine sat in the back seat of Travis’s cab and asked him, “What’s bothering you the most about this country?”, he replied, “This city is like an open sewer. There's scum and garbage everywhere, and sometimes I feel like I can't take it anymore." Travis drove a taxi through such a metropolis, watching the hippie gangsters, male thieves and female prostitutes on the street outside the car, fighting drug dealers, listening to the inside of the car. The passengers' night and night sings, hypocrisy, sin, numbness and ridiculous. All of this has brought a heavy blow to his soul as a man who has experienced the Vietnam War. The film's director Martin Scorsese once said: "After a person has gone through any war and returned to the so-called civilized world, when the dark night comes, the dirty reality will make people seriously delusional. Symptoms." This severe paranoia made him unable to bear this indifference and dirty world, he decided not to be silent and forbearance, he decided to rebel against everything in his own way. three. Travis wrote in his diary that day. He started to act, he went to a gun dealer to buy a gun. The close-up moves the camera, a pistol of various types is lined up in front of him, and his psychological distortion is magnified at this moment. He picked up the pistol and aimed and shot at the people downstairs outside the window, showing his dark and perverted revenge mentality at a glance. Days and nights, he shoots shots of him practicing shooting from various angles and scenes. Even watching the film in a pornographic movie theater, his fingers gesture like a gun, just like a demon who is obsessed. Software and hardware are two-pronged. While he is doing all kinds of equipment on firearms, he also keeps exercising, push-ups, lifting barbells, gravity upwards... The muscles on his body become stronger and stronger day by day, and the expression on his face is also increasingly cold and determined. . He acted out to himself in the mirror, talking to himself, dreaming of his heroic dreams—"Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?" "I'm here, let's do it!" "Listen, You stupid rubbish, this man can't take it anymore, he's going to stand up against scum, perverts, lackeys, trash, this man is going to stand up"... with a mohawk, black sunglasses, and a military jacket Traris sees himself as the embodiment of justice, and he chooses an extreme way to get Bessie's attention - assassinating Palantine. Unfortunately, Traris' assassination ended in failure, and he was found just as he was about to raise his gun, and he fled. This seems to symbolize the insignificance of the little people under the strong political power. So Traris pinned his final heroism on Iris, a young prostitute. He had seduced Iris Chunjun before, hoping that she could escape from the den and return to a normal girl life. Who knew that Traris's rescue was just his wishful thinking, and Iris enjoyed it and didn't accept Traris's good intentions at all. In the end, Traris had to rescue her in the most extreme way - killing the prostitution nest and perishing with the pimps. At the end of the film, the slow big pan-moving camera brings a sudden change in rhythm. In the messy and bloody room, lies the twisted corpse, Traris who is still alive, Iris who is terrified, and the police with guns... Interspersed with superpositions The bloodstains on the stairs, walls, and floor of the prostitution nest that appeared, brought strong visual and spiritual impact time and time again. At the end of the film, the plot takes a turn. The camera pans slowly over the newspaper news on the wall, accompanied by a voice-over of a thank you letter from Iris' father to Travis, a post about "Taxi Driver Hero To
However, is Travis really a hero? On the surface, Traris means to save the young prostitute Iris, and even to save this dirty and chaotic world, but in fact he is trying to save himself. Yes, he couldn't stand the dirty, chaotic, indifferent and alienated world he faced every day. But when he uses his self-righteous violent method, this more extreme method to save the world, he is actually accomplishing his own liberation. In fact, he has been trapped in the city of sin that cannot extricate himself, just like the people around him. . Although Travis's way of fighting violence is extreme, almost insane as if he had been hit by evil, his expression is indifferent and decisive. But I still feel that he is so simple, kind, and beautiful. Through his eyes, I see his inner loneliness, his inner pain and struggle, his desolation and his beauty. As if he could see through me at a glance, those silent eyes could penetrate my most essential soul and reach all the little emotions deep in my heart. In the 1970s, Martin Scorsese, with his concerns and criticism of American society, used his unique film language to reveal to us the filth, chaos and contradictions of society, and to present us with an urban environment. The inner world of little people. Putting this "Taxi Driver" into the current Chinese society seems to have the same profound meaning. Sojourn in a small room in a big city with lots of traffic and red lights, overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the city, insomnia and drinking in the middle of the night, dreaming of illusory heroic dreams, whispering obsessions that no one understands... Travis is you and me .
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