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Travis often couldn't sleep at night, looking for a long-time job, no matter the time or location, so he became a night taxi driver. Driving a taxi every night to pick up passengers in various urban areas, Travis has seen all kinds of people and witnessed many indulgent, depraved, and disgraceful phenomena, which he disliked.
During the Vietnam War, the United States was trapped in confusion and hesitation. Deeper and deeper in the quagmire of war, economic development was slow, racial problems were serious, and the civil rights movement emerged. All this has led to the accumulation of negative emotions in the country, and the tension between all classes, individuals and society has increased. Our protagonist is a young man in that society who has lost his way in life. A 26-year-old veteran who is incompatible with the world around him.
Travis feels that he is a lonely person, but he believes that people should integrate into society, not self-enclosed. Long hours of work every day did not bring about changes in life. He found that for such a long time, everything had no special meaning. Once driving past the election office on the corner of the street, he suddenly saw a beautiful and moving woman, an extraordinary elf, who illuminated his world.
They met, but in the end the woman abandoned him because she was puzzled (although it was really incomprehensible, he took his female companion to watch pornographic movies. But this is his life, and there is no depravity for him). He found that this woman was no different from everyone else. They judge others by social standards and label others instead of understanding real individuals. This disappointed him and deepened his loneliness.
Later, he ran into the presidential candidate and a twelve-year-old girl who missed his feet in his taxi. When asked what is the biggest problem in society, he answered the future president, it is all this depravity. The overall candidate's answer did not satisfy him. The twelve-year-old girl screamed and cried and asked him to take her away, but then was dragged away amidst the insults of the pimp.
The perplexity, disappointment, and the disillusionment of beautiful illusions aroused Travis's resistance to reality.
He chose not to fall asleep, but to wake up. Hope to change this society.
He chose violence and turned himself into a dangerous man with a gun.
He believes that he is on the side of the country, on the side of justice.
At a rally in the square, he pulled out a gun in an attempt to assassinate the presidential candidate. But no success.
At the door of the brothel, he shot at the pimp and rushed in to kill all the scum. He fought fiercely with the gang and was finally seriously injured, but finally the twelve-year-old girl was rescued.
So Travis became a hero, but he himself knew that he was not, he was just himself, lonely, kind and simple, had good expectations of society, and did not want to fall.
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Iris ran away from home and came to New York alone. She was only 12 and a half years old. She came to a black apartment with a man, and then wandered around the apartment with another girl every day to pick up guests. When she was at home, her mother was chattering and her father would sometimes beat her, but in the black apartment, no one beat her, but they gave her drugs. They relied on her and told her something that made her feel warm and safe, so she naturally accepted this. Kind of life.
Until a taxi driver showed up. He doesn't have any bad thoughts about her, he just wants to chat with her in ordinary places. He told her that a 12-and-a-half-year-old girl should be with her family, should go to school, and should not betray her body.
She was influenced by this opinion. But when he returned to the black apartment, the man who claimed to love her spoke a lot of tender words to her. She still decided to rely on this person to continue this kind of life.
One night she suddenly heard gunshots. Then she saw the taxi driver shot and killed the person who was about to assault her, and dragged the guard covered in blood into the room. She screamed and told the driver not to kill him, but the driver knocked the trigger. Kill the guard.
In the last scene she saw, the taxi driver shot himself, but he had no bullets. The police rushed into the room and pointed a gun at the driver. The driver made a gun gesture with his left hand and pressed his thumb.
So she returned to her parents.
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Betsy is young and beautiful, working as a secretary in the campaign office of popular presidential candidates. A colleague approached her in various ways. That person was nice, witty and humorous, but Betsy didn't call.
One day she noticed that a taxi driver had been watching her at the door. The driver found himself being spotted and quickly slipped away.
The next day, the taxi driver came to her, told her that he wanted to be a volunteer, and invited her to drink coffee. She felt that the driver had an impulse similar to hers, so she agreed to him. They get along very happily, the driver likes her and also attracts her very much.
The driver later called her twice and insisted on inviting her to the movies. She finally agreed. What she didn't expect was that she was taken to a pornographic movie theater. She endured the unhappiness, watched for a minute, and finally couldn't stand it, got up and left. Feeling insulted, she ignored the bewildered man and called a taxi to leave.
Later, she stopped answering the taxi driver's call. He also gave up.
One day she saw the newspaper, and the news on it surprised her-the taxi driver fought fiercely with the gang, rescued the girl who had missed his footing, and was seriously injured. It is the taxi driver who pursues himself.
So, she went to the hotel where the driver was waiting to take a taxi. She waited for the taxi, but she found that the taxi driver had no affection for her. At the door of the house, she waited for the driver to speak, but there was no response. She decided to pay the fare and go home, but the taxi driver didn't ask for it. Instead, she drove away and disappeared into the dark night of the city.
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