Martin
Scorsese is one of the most accomplished directors in the history of
Hollywood, and Taxi Driver is
his masterpiece. It was robbed of the Academy Award by Rocky
in 1976 because the Academy is
more likely to award feel-good movies rather than the dark
introspective nightmare that is Taxi Driver. The
movie takes place in New York, but it's not a movie about the city,
it's about the way the a man views the city and how it damages him.
Like many of Scorsese's films, there really isn't any cohesive plot,
it just sort of wanders from one idea to another giving us an idea of
who Travis Bickle is and why he does the things he does, how the city
transforms him from a just a taxi driver who writes letters to his
parents on their anniversary to a killer on a rampage.
