Oh my god I just watched taxi driver and thought it was mediocre at best. Gave it 2 1/2 stars. Saw that it sits at 4,2?!?
Taxi Driver resonates much more powerfully when you or someone close to you has suffered from delusions.
To the perfectly sane mind Travis is being insane without reason, and in a boring way.
I imagine the high score TD had gathered over the years is because there are many people that sympathize with Travis, and maybe see him as an anti hero.
taxi driver felt like it was asking the question “what if we made a movie where nothing happens?”. and apparently, if you make the main character “disturbed” enough, the answer is that the movie becomes one of the greatest films of all time.
Usually when I see nothing burgers like taxi driver I at least feel stupid and like I am missing something. But I don’t. It just feels empty. I’ll watch some video essays to see someone explain their fever dream to me, but I’m sure itll not change my mind.
I also have to say I hate how they used the same song every 5 minutes. (A taxi driver fan is cringing right now because I don’t understand the stylistic choice)
the movie felt like a version of american psycho that took itself way too seriously and tried to romanticize the “troubled and disturbed vigilante” trope. having a bit more humor would have gone a long way i think. i’m not saying the movie should have been a comedy or anything, but something like the business card scene from american psycho would have helped. something to show that the movie wasn’t taking itself so seriously. the movie just feels like watching them point at this guy and say “whoa he’s pretty fucked up and twisted isn’t he? aren’t the streets so dirty and messy and full of crime? and he’s really messed up and he doesn’t like the grimy city.”
it felt like the whole point of the movie was just to say “this is the day to day life of somebody who is messed up in the head, and by the way, we’re going to try to make him look really cool and jaded”, but that’s not exactly a novel concept. i didn’t gain anything from that. if they wanted to show a jaded and disturbed character, i think it would have been better to have a bit of a plot, and to make it so that more things actually happened in the movie
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