Because I couldn't sleep, I was looking for a job that could occupy the night time-a taxi driver. There is no limit, run across the city. Maybe Travis wants countless people on many streets in a city to fill the psychological void. Those colorful, flickering and blurry neon lights and the clouds of smoke from the sewer manhole cover make people unable to see the night clearly, nor can they get real spiritual communication and comfort.
At the beginning of the film, the shaking scenes, the blurred street scenes, and the rushing and tense background music of the drums have already expressed the crisis of Travis' spiritual world, his loneliness, loneliness, and emptiness. Everyone who talks to himself and records his own life is probably eager to talk, but because no one can share or don't want others to know, so just write it for yourself and communicate with yourself. Travis is a talkative, or not talkative. In the face of the women he likes, didn't he also bravely and directly express his heart, and he was successful. When he was a "taxi driver," he was silent, except for the political leader, and it was mostly because of Bessie that Travis knew him. The so-called love house and Wu. When asked about his bad views of the city, Travis talked about the rubbish on the street. Perhaps these "junk" include those rascals, prostitutes, pimps, perverts, etc. that Travis hates. From Travis's perspective, compared to rubbish, it is these people on the street that we see most.
He told himself not to live autistically, but to integrate into society. He is trying hard to let himself live with a positive and hopeful heart in a lonely life. He tried to find the exit of life and save his empty self. He met Bessie, the blonde. At that moment, the tender saxophone music sounded, and Travis's heart must be spring breeze, blue waves rippling. He first sat in the taxi and watched Bessie outside Bessie’s office. A few days later, he walked towards her without hesitation. Travis’s crimson coat and Bessie’s bright red dress looked right, but they There is a distance between them-the distance between a table, whether in an office or a restaurant, there is always a table between the two. In the movie theater, when the gap between the tables finally disappeared, they broke, that is, they broke. Although they haven't been together yet. Therefore, the saying that distance produces beauty is not unreasonable. But often the actual distance is not the factor that two people cannot be together, but the psychological distance. Travis was completely rejected, Bessie told him, we are different people. Actually that's right. When Travis spoke to Bessie for the first time, Travis said to Bessie, I can see that you are as lonely as me. But Bessie's loneliness may just be the vacancy of love. She has suitors, colleagues, and friends.
Those rejected flowers became dry and shriveled, just like Travis' love for Bessie, also began to deform. He got a realization: Women are indifferent and alienated. He wrote in his diary: If you want to stay healthy, you have to be happy. But he was not happy, just confused. He wanted to ask the driver some questions, hoping to get an answer. But he couldn't tell the feelings in his heart, and he wasn't exactly what he wanted to do. He just said "I just want to stand up...". The red light shone on his face, dim and confused. In the first discussion of the drivers having dinner together in the movie, they were arguing about lipstick, rouge, and talking about women, showing their contempt for women. Among the customers Travis met, ease was forcibly taken away, and there was a man in a suit who had been talking to himself, stubborn and irritable, his wife cheated, and he said he was going to smash her face with a pistol. When Travis almost hit a reckless girl, he slowly followed the two girls in the car, and a man stumbled across the street, shouting "I should kill her". Then the two girls casually accosted the two men on the corner in order to get rid of Travis. And all these men express their anger towards women because their woman wants to leave them, they can't get her, so they want to kill that woman. Once Travis was watching TV at home, when the woman on the screen told the man, I love him. Travis kicked over the TV. Men are afraid to hate the departure and betrayal of women.
Travis didn't want to kill Bessie, but he wanted to murder the leader Bessie supported. He bought a lot of guns, began to exercise, practice marksmanship, face the mirror to practice drawing guns, talking cruel, obscene, lying, looking for vent. His original target of venting was the leader, but he failed, so the pimp, the hotel man and the prostitutes became Travis's final vent.
For Easy, he tried to save this "missing girl", but although Easy was controlled and sold herself, she didn't seem to be particularly forced. She said, anyway, my family has nothing. And she likes that pimp, even though the pimp is just using her at all. Easy's "returning to the right path" was a self-defeating event, Travis became a hero.
But I doubt whether the latter are true. In addition to being shot in the neck, Travis was also shot elsewhere. When the police arrived, he used his hand as a gun to "solve" himself, and it seemed that the person was dead. The rest is an ideal result or a beautiful fantasy. Bessie found Travis, but Travis didn't seem to like Bessie so obsessively anymore. Rescuing the "missing girl" may have brought him a certain meaning of life, the realization of self-worth. He chatted and laughed happily with his colleagues, and was no longer just withdrawn.
Travis said to the leader’s bodyguard before that, I’m waiting for the sun to rise. I think he may have already waited.
What is the meaning of life? How to get rid of loneliness?
No one can give us an exact answer, because everyone's meaning in life can only be known after experiencing many things. As for loneliness, you are born lonely. Since there is no way to get rid of it, try to let yourself enjoy loneliness and do what you like to make yourself better to fill your heart.
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