The smoke from the engine at the beginning slowly drove out of the yellow taxi, and then he made a close-up of his eyes, and the color reflected on his face with the neon outside the window. When the camera was aimed at the street scene, Travis saw the lights and feasts, and the smoke was smoky. .
The reason why he became a taxi driver was due to insomnia, and insomnia was due to the trauma brought to him by the Vietnam War (he was honorably retired in May 1973), and from the film he treated the social hooligans, the scum, and the inaction of the government. Attitude and the behavior of rescuing Iris can be seen in his humanitarian spirit, because of moral pressure, he has to stray from the crowd that he can see. But he was eager to integrate into the society, and he also tried hard. So he meets Betsy, an angel he thinks is just as lonely as him, which is exactly the answer to Iris' questioning on him, why do you think you're superior.
Close-up, close-up, and close-up of the water glass the director gave him when he was haunted by the Betsy thing (with the drug in it), here is Martin Scorsese's tribute to Carol Reed Well (he first invented the visual effects of bubbles and predicaments, Mark Cousins, "History of Cinema"). But off-screen Travis' friends are discussing gun ownership, the first time a taxi driver has spoken out about gun ownership.
Then he met Palantine, met Iris and the pimp, remember that $20 hush money? In the end, he reluctantly collected the money until it was paid to the old man at the open house. It really went back and forth from place to place.
Of course Travis being rejected for taking Betsy to porn was a turning point, making him even more empty, lonely and socially unhappy (we saw him saying that the flowers made him sicker, and before he assassinated Palantine He burned it with his own hands before), and a husband (passenger) who went to catch a rape reminded him that it seems that only weapons can avenge the hatred of women for hurting men. But we shouldn't forget that he's been using his diary to tell some of his life until he wrote "and then suddenly, there's change", he didn't start buying weapons, exercising, polishing gear until he saw Iris again of. It's a pity that the first time he used a gun to kill a robber who robbed a supermarket, and he only circled around the scene where the Congressman was present during the day; the second time he didn't have a chance to draw a gun at the Congressman (or Betsy? ), but a fight with a pimp or something, so that in the end the media hailed him as a hero. The righteousness in his heart awe-inspiringly failed, but it happened to fulfill social morality. (Olive Stone played the role of media exaggeration to the extreme in "Born to Kill")
The most impressive thing is that when Travis recovered and saw Betsy again, the director used the inside rearview mirror to make a close-up of the expressions of the two, But the story is not over yet. If Travis can face the woman he once loved and cursed with a smile at this point, then the angle of the interior rearview mirror is slightly adjusted and the rearview scene is changed to the street view, and then the mood finally ends. suddenly see the light. Why did he kill himself with two guns running out of bullets, but he still shot himself in the head with a substitute pistol? The director also made a close-up of the weapon and the corpse one by one, because with this violence, Travis, who lived in the shadows, also died. Therefore, the street scenes shot by the director at the end are generally higher than the viewing angles in the film. Only high-rise buildings and lights are shot at an elevation angle, and there is only a constant stream of people in the interior rearview mirror. The world doesn't seem so dirty anymore.
Rather than saying that the director wants to express loneliness, it is better to say that he intends to explain the impermanence and absurdity of life, and uses the irony of wrong and wrong to resolve a huge disaster.
ps One thing I don't understand is, why didn't Travis hit the old man with a single shot, and let him scream so much i'll kill you before killing him?
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