"Taxi Driver" is an American feature film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader in 1976. The film tells the story of what happened in New York after the Vietnam War from the perspective of a taxi driver. At this time, the United States was quite embarrassed and confused. He drove a taxi every day to witness the fall of New York, but in the end he became a public hero in a dramatic way. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 29th Cannes International Film Festival in 1976.
Lavis, a Vietnam War veteran who has just returned from the battlefield in Vietnam and suffered from severe insomnia, lives by driving a night taxi in New York City. Lavis is a socially maladaptive man who relies on pornography to dispel his insomnia, but seeing the corruption and darkness of the metropolitan nightlife every day makes him more lonely and empty. When Travis was bored, a girl named Bessie stepped into his eyes. In his opinion, Bessie is different, she is the incarnation of an angel. Bessie is a staff member of the campaign center of the presidential candidate Pastine. In order to get close to her, Lavis went to the center to volunteer and asked Bessie to associate with him. But because the gap between the two was too big, Travis took her to a porn movie on the first date, and Bessie ignored him since. Lost in love made Travis feel pain, loss and confusion. While continuing his boring and boring life, he decided to use actions to prove his meaning. Lavis bought a gun from a black market merchant. In the process of preparing to assassinate Palantan, he met the prostitute Iris and decided to help her escape from the den. After failing to assassinate Palantan, Travis came to the brothel where Yiz was located, and killed the old bustard, landlord and prostitute one by one, and suffered serious injuries. Under the propaganda of the media, Travis, who was about to die, became a hero who saved the prostitutes, and his deeds became news in New York. One day after healed, Travis found Bessie walking into his taxi, but this time he rejected Bessie's favor and disappeared into the feasting streets of New York as usual.
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