Taxi Driver
1976 · TMDB 8.1
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Why it matters
Scorsese's portrait of Travis Bickle, a Vietnam veteran whose obsessive disgust with New York's 'scum' curdles into a violent crusade. Bernard Herrmann's atonal score, the prowling Steadicam, and Travis's diary voiceover construct a subjective cityscape where every street is a pr...
From The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Released
- 1976-02-09
- Studio
- Bill/Phillips Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 8.1
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