Going out to take a taxi, two consecutive red lights. The driver sighed helplessly through his nose. Recalling the days when I rode to school in junior high school, there was only one intersection on the way. For me, who was used to going out with a touch of pressure, a red light for fifty seconds often meant a penalty stop of fifteen minutes. For ordinary people like me, green lights and red lights often simply affect efficiency and mood. For drivers like Travis, "stop at red light and go on green light" is a basic rule and a command. Red means danger ahead, green means safety ahead, and yellow connects the two. Martin Scorsese used only these three traffic colors to complete the characterization of Travis. Travis wears three kinds of coats in the film: the red suit when dating Betsy; the green coat when he assassinated the president and trespassing alone; and the ordinary yellow coat that he usually wears most of the time. The information conveyed is also very similar to traffic lights. When dating, people always expect themselves to be perfect, and they can’t help disguising their true side. This is the case in all social occasions, including dating. The main costumes of several major supporting actors in the film also have red elements: Betsy, Zhongyi Betsy's colleagues, and Iris are no exception. Travis, who is usually jealous of vulgarity, is not exempt from meeting vulgarity, but because of his jealousy, he appears contradictory and nondescript. Martin Scorsese seems to want to imply that when the character is wearing red clothes, we should stay away from him as if seeing a red light, and stop understanding the person in front of him, because he is in a state of illusion. The true self wrapped tightly. When Travis decided to make a blockbuster, he put on a thick green coat, not only to conceal the weapons under his clothes, but also to conceal his manic and dangerous heart in front of the public. He wanted everyone to see him and feel safe as if they wanted to see the green light. At work, Travis has always been dressed in plain yellow overalls, sitting in his yellow taxi, watching every red-to-green light in front of him and every window in the rearview mirror that is changing from green to green. People who turn yellow to red. This is especially true when Travis wore a yellow jacket with a red shirt, and when he went to Betsy for the last time. The action of making a fighting posture under the eyes of the public, but holding it back in time, fits perfectly with this suit. And there is a classic poster, which is the scene where Travis, wearing this suit, stands in front of a taxi. Red and green do not directly point to human emotions, but express emotions caused by emotions. Love does not always mean peace, and hatred does not always correspond to loss of control and impulse. It is entirely possible that completely different emotions produce exactly the same emotions. Because hate is love that cannot be obtained. It is emotionally relative, but emotionally the same. The soundtrack and scenes in the film also show a clear duality. When Travis is in a good mood and calm down, the soundtrack is always briskly in response to the green background image. When he is in a bad mood and emotionally excited, the soundtrack is always heavy and slow, and the feeling of falling is also gradually darkening the background picture. The only "yellow light" scene in the film is the corridor where Travis calls Betsy. Travis before and after the phone is as different as the red and green lights before and after the yellow light. In the end, Travis beat Huanglong alone and became a hero. But his life has not changed drastically, and Betsy has not changed him. Travis is still like Betsy's evaluation of him with the lyrics "Like a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction, a walking contradiction." Everyone is a contradiction, truth or fiction, green or red, just like a piece of paper On the pros and cons, man is a Mobius belt, unable to find its own definition and nature. The director did not tell us the ending of Travis, but at the end of the film, it seemed to give us a hint that Travis’s taxi was always moving through the traffic, and soon, the background music suddenly became heavy. Faced with a problem that we know and have no solution, no matter how much we get a sense of fulfillment in the process of solving the problem, we will eventually be depressed because of the lack of solution. Everyone is still a walking contradiction throughout his life. Everyone who wants to be a terminator and has worked hard for it will find that "No parking" is written everywhere on the road.
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