Let me talk about the most intuitive sense of loneliness first. Throughout the film is jazz and New York night scenes. The laziness of the saxophone sets off a boring life, like a masturbation chuckling in a dead silence. The neon flickering in the night smudged the city even more unreal. As the soundtrack becomes more solemn at the beginning, the picture blurs into a light graffiti (which also hints at the tragic ending), and even reminds me of the weird and grotesque scene of a spacecraft driving into the universe in "Space Odyssey", and a taxi driving in the middle of nowhere. In the Yuan Tau. The protagonist of the story, the taxi driver Travis, was selected by the screenwriter as an omnipotent perspective, using his professional attributes as an eye to guide the audience, while at the same time conveying the characteristics of a character with his subjective and even extreme thinking. Let Renoir once said: "Depicting a bastard is more dramatic than describing a good guy." Indeed, this is a movie-watching thinking that fans should be used to early on. In reality, the best people are advocated, and the classic images in movies are often from the bottom of society. People, freaks, wanderers, and odd people. The taxi driver Travis is an ordinary bottom of society. He often asks the other person's name abruptly and takes the initiative to report his home. This is a very strong desire to talk. The question that comes back to the topic is: Don't be such a lonely weird person. At least find a way to establish one's own presence.
One of Travis's ways to find a way of being is to communicate with people, and it is a simple way to be kind to others. Some people say that the two women in the two lines of the presidential campaign office secretary and prostitute are femme fatale. Indeed, whether it is in literary, film and television works or in life, I mean that from the perspective of male power, people in interpersonal relationships will always choose an object as sustenance, especially under the trend of sexual instinct. Maybe the object does not exist perfectly. At that point of life, she is a femme fatale, a stunner, a dangerous woman, because this is the price of sustenance. Travis tried to put the object of sustenance into his control circle under his own guidance. To put it bluntly, he was fulfilling himself by obtaining others. He believes that the female secretary will be in a happy relationship with his own driver, and he thinks that it can help young prostitutes who are weaker and more difficult than him to get out of the sea of suffering. Well, what kind of self you are, it is still: you can't be a person who tries to redeem yourself by redeeming others.
In fact, the film still advertises a certain kind of heroism. In the development of the story, Travis is about to be destroyed by violence, but he who killed the pimps and led the young prostitutes into the right path became a hero, then Violence as a means just proved himself. This is very contradictory. It is well known that modern society is anti-hero. His righteous deeds cannot influence politicians (the film always shows the politicians’ propaganda of political power), and cannot enter those nasty prostitutes, drug dealers, and subordinates. Three abuses. But at the end, he smiled and said goodbye to the female secretary and drove into the night again. The relief finally rescued himself. From the small person to the thug to the hero, the process was quite dramatic. I know very well that, whether it’s film or literature, finding resonance is not the only way. Chewing the emotions conveyed by movies is no longer my habit of watching movies. We know that Don Quixote’s attack on the windmill is ridiculous, the taxi driver. The same is true of the difficulty and paranoia of the people. In fact, it is me who should pity and sympathize. Of course, sympathy alone is not enough. Then, what you have to do is not to say that it should be like this: the necessary and fundamental of individualism. At the same time, it has been proved that the existence of individuals must be perfected by others (this is also the difference between individualism and egoism), and find equal and compatible objects to perfect each other. The above, for the time being, is how I think of how to be myself.
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