Does the world still need "Secondary"?

Loyce 2022-04-21 09:01:11

Robert De Niro, who drives a night-shift taxi, looks at the dark side of society. This seems to be numb to him. He seems to be expressionless, but what is in his heart? In this city, the contempt of the upper class for the lower class, the crime of black people, the decadence of prostitutes, all are the source of the male protagonist's "secondary".
Fortunately, De Niro is a handsome guy. After his second middle school chat, he dated a beautiful girl, but the good times didn't last long. After all, the beauty and him were not from the same world. After being stimulated, De Niro only had the "second second" thought in his heart. , How could he be swept away by such a social torrent after he was discharged from the battlefield? He bought a gun, practiced marksmanship, and all kinds of obscenity gunfight scenes happened.
After the unsuccessful assassination of the senator, the determination to save Loli deepened in his heart. Everything broke out at this point, all the filth, sin, corruption, all the catharsis, and it seemed that God was helping him in the fire. A shot just grazed his neck, hehe, in the end, the male protagonist laughed at the police and imitated suicide with a pistol posture. The camera used a bird's-eye view to show De Niro's record one by one. I think this is satirizing this society. Deformed.
After reading it, I reflected in my own heart, is it selfish? timid? Afraid? Should everything go along with this society? Am I also lucky to have such heroism? Hey ~ at least I have to uphold the belief in my heart, try to remember it every day, and don't become numb and become a walking dead.

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  • Dusty 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    I have to say that Robert De Niro has outstanding acting skills, but there is a small bug. The male protagonist who has served as a soldier actually took a gun in his right hand and aimed his left eye; another thing is,,, how is it that beautiful women are so easy to bubble and drop? You can go on a date, as if people were not busy at all. Maybe that era was different, and there was no gang to chase him after he was in the den. I really didn’t see the classics, the American spirit of that era. It shows

  • Betty 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    【A】In the smoke and dust, the taxi slowly drove out, accompanied by Bernard Herman's soundtrack, from the first scene, it has become a majestic momentum. The best cinematic case for the confusion and pain of the American community after the Vietnam War, as well as social dissection. At the same time, it is also about the city. The neon texture of the night scene outlines the basic appearance. Jazz and pedestrians of various colors are the best fillings for this body. New York is a fantasy soft light hell. But the more grand the visual feast, the more nihilistic the personal emotion becomes. In fact, the answer has been given in the middle of the film "you have a job, you become a part of the job, you have no choice". So the ending is more like a kind of backlash from fate. The male protagonist's abnormal violent behavior is shaped into human brilliance, which fundamentally negates the possibility of "self-liberation" as an individual, and banishes him to the place where city rules and class solidification are placed. The world formed is only neon loneliness. Having said that, the style and scope of the second half of the film are diluted, and thanks to Herman's soundtrack, it will not cause a greater viewing gap.

Taxi Driver quotes

  • Travis Bickle: You're a young girl, you should be at home. You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.

  • Travis Bickle: Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.