Martin Scorsese won the Palme d’Or in 1976 with the film. Unfortunately, the Oscars of that year did not favor this master movie now. The best director and best film were both taken away by "Rocky". , Even Robert De Niro’s nearly perfect performance in the film was only nominated for the actor, but such a film is still Martin’s beginning to emerge in the international film scene, and it is also his most representative work. .
There are lone rangers in every city. I don’t know who translated the propaganda words on the movie posters, which are almost perfect paraphrases. Travis, played by Robert De Niro, is just such a lone ranger. He is lonely and lonely. But in such a cold and merciless world, he is so pure and looks so different.
Travis is a soldier who retired from the Vietnam War. He couldn't adapt to reality when he returned to reality. Everything was incompatible with him. He was so lonely in such a world without trust. He had infinite energy to use. He can only vent in pornographic video stores, record his loneliness and loneliness in his diary, and find fulfillment in endless work, but this can only make him more lonely. In the taxi driver community, he That kind of alternative, can only listen to other drivers bragging and smiling, and then go to their own nightlife.
However, life will change. Like every man, he falls in love with a woman. Like all men, he thinks at first glance that this woman will not be defiled by anyone, perhaps, just because of loneliness, However, he fell in love hopelessly.
After returning from the Vietnam War, he seemed to be unfamiliar with the rules in reality. He walked directly into Bessie’s office, chatted up, and dated, and everything went smoothly. It may be because Travis’s alternative and directly attracted Bessie, or maybe It was because Bessie was really lonely, so they dated, drank coffee, watched movies, talked about music, just like other couples, but Travis was not familiar with all of this, he didn’t understand music, and rarely went to coffee shops. Even the movies only watch the color green movies, they come from different worlds. So, when Travis led Bessie into the porn video store, their brief spark of love was about to extinguish.
Travis, who was deeply in love and frustrated in love, tried to save his love, but ended in failure and frustrated, he began to think that Bessie was not different. Like all the people who were frustrated in love, he believed that Bessie's indifference and alienation are no longer "will not be contaminated by anyone." The frustration of love, the loss of war, and the ugliness under the night of New York seen by the taxi at night made him cynical and hated the society, so he decided to assassinate the presidential candidate Palantine to prove himself in front of Bessie.
Travis's Mohican hairstyle when he assassinated Palantine had characteristics of the times, and it was also a metaphor of the times that Martin Scorsese wanted. In the 1970s, the United States was in the quagmire of the Vietnam War. Inflation, the number of unemployed people continued to rise, and the pressure of survival put people in a state of depression. So Al Pacino's bank robbery in "Hot Day Afternoon" would attract people better. A little incitement can make people stand on the opposite side of the government, and the government has lost the trust of the people. It is in this era that Travis feels depressed and depressed, and feels endless loneliness in a world without trust. They need a vent, so the assassination of the president came into being in this era.
Venting through violence is not the idea of Travis alone, but a very common behavior in that era. The man with a beard who Martin Scorsese appeared in a cameo to kill his wife who betrayed his wife is an example. Travis felt the depression of life, feeling lonely and helpless, so he sought out the most bragging "wizard" among the drivers, but he was also helpless, unable to appreciate Travis's loneliness, so Travis bought some 38 , Bought several cool guns, so Travis began to practice marksmanship against Palantan every day.
At this time, Travis met the prostitute Aris, perhaps through Aris’s eyes, or perhaps because of the crumpled dollar bills of "Boy", Travis, who decided to assassinate Palantan and vent himself through death. Choose to save Iris. So he found Iris. Iris didn’t trust him. He didn’t need sex to vent his dissatisfaction. He was distressed, he was cynical. He wanted to save a young girl before he died, and he seemed to get it in the end. Iris's trust.
Finally, Travis, who left Mohigan, came to the campaign site. He wanted to assassinate Palantan, but the assassination without careful preparation and planning is easy to see through, so his assassination failed and he could not be in Bessie. To prove himself in front of him, only to flee in a hurry. Travis, in a state of mental madness, uncontrollably came to the place where Iris was involved in prostitution, killed the pimp, killed the hysterical old man, and killed the man who earned money from Iris in prostitution and went to AI for free. Reese’s man, who was seriously injured, shot himself with a pistol without bullets almost frantically. When the police came, Travis shot himself with a bloody finger with a smile on his face. The police were shocked, and the audience in front of the screen was shocked! Next is the overhead shot, the dead pimp, the dead underworld, the policeman holding the gun, all look so small in front of Travis, because they are so dirty, and Travis is so pure!
In a slightly ironic ending, Travis became a hero of the media. Travis’s life continued. He became friends with the drivers and proved himself in Bessie, how heroic he is, and he can play cool in front of the goddess. , But after turning the street corner, she still has to look at her goddess crazily through the rearview mirror. At this moment, Travis is purely like a little boy. He is not a hero. He is just a lonely man, who still cares about this goddess. Fragile child!
Young people who are empty and lonely like Travis can still be seen in every city and every street. They did not choose to vent violence, but they would walk alone on the street, standing in the subway, maybe they took Headphones, humming music, they feel so clean, and their sadness is so "bright", even the "sorrow" that can flow down by looking up forty-five degrees.
At this age, I would walk alone on the street, find a corner to sit down, and watch the rushing crowds coming and going; I would be alone in a dark corner of the movie theater, watching other people’s stories, Be a bystander; will be alone in front of the dormitory computer, watching favorite movies, listening to favorite songs, drinking beer, and writing words that come to mind. We all experience such an age, loneliness, loneliness, and no understanding of others. When we meet the girl we like, we bravely strike up a conversation, but in the process of being together, we find the distance between each other and find that loneliness has always been with us.
Returning to the film, I really feel sorry for Martin Scorsese. Such a classic film missed the Oscar, but it was a remake of the Hong Kong movie "Infernal Affairs" that helped Martin Scorsese to get the Oscar many years later. The collapse of heroism, love without reason, and violence without motives, films that deeply portrayed the mental state of the "lost generation" in the United States after the Vietnam War were not recognized, but they were recognized by a heroic film many years later. Fortunately, the French back then saw Martin's deep excavation and writing of human nature, and uncle Martin took away the Palme d’Or.
The most fascinating of the film is the jazz-style soundtrack and the use of subjective shots. At the beginning and at the end, the gorgeous night scenes and neon lights under the subjective shots through the perspective and refraction of the glass, coupled with the melancholic tune of the saxophone, will be messy and dirty. New York’s nightlife was written in an exquisite minor, and the last bloody gunfight, like Travis’s Mohican hairstyle, is more like a rock variation in this jazz minor.
In every city, there is a lone ranger, wandering in the changing night like a ghost, his eyes gleaming like a wolf in the night. Robert De Niro's insomnia is the pain of a generation. His emptiness is the emptiness of the entire United States in the 1970s. His unreasonable love and unmotivated resistance are as aimless as the confusion of the entire United States. In the slightly ironic ending, he changed from a terrorist to a social hero. It seemed to be a great ending, but it was a very ironic ending. Martin Scorsese took all his cynicism. It's all in the eyes of Robert De Niro.
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