ITT: Films women will never truly understand.
>>71591892
Most men don't understand this film, either. Even ones that have seen it multiple times.
There are genuinely people on /tv/ who have seen Taxi Driver multiple times and actually think Travis was a veteran.
>>71594225
>Wikipedia literally says he was an honorably discharged U.S. Marine
>>71594225
But he did fight in Vietnam
Pretty sure they're just as capable of understanding these films as you are, guys.
>>71594262
>Wikipedia
>WIKIPEDIA
>>71594225
What leads you to believe that Travis wasn't a veteran? We even see some wicked scars on his side that look like shrapnel wounds.
>>71594225
He also gives the guy at the taxi company his discharge papers in the first scene.
Guy went postal to save an umderage prostitute. What's there to understand?
Leon The professional did it better.
They could never understand the camaraderie.
Two guys just having a good time.
>>71594499
What are themes?
>>71594579
shhhh its a woman. Cant understand.
>>71594225
From my perspective, he very well may have been. He may not have been. It doesn't matter though. The film has nothing to do with his status as a veteran. It's a tale depicting the feelings of ennui Travis struggles with. This is made note of a multitude of times throughout the film in its dialogue, Travis' actions, and interactions with others. Travis himself claims that all he ever need in life "was a sense of someplace to go". This is why Travis makes no distinction between the attempted assassination of Palantine or the killing of the pimps. Both of theseacts were naught but desperate attempts to validate his own existence. Something by which he would be remembered.
It's not abou loneliness. It's not about mental illness. It's about a man's need for purpose.
>>71594499
Woman detected. See my post here >>71595049
The Revenant
Why did Travis try to kill Palatine? Was it just so he could make a name for himself?
>>71594381
Is this the most ' lè kìnòmatographìqùe excellènte' ever?
>>71594363
My gf loves Blade Runner
>Why would they do all that just for one guy?
>>71595049
And in the end, he still hasn't found it. Travis will spiral downward the same way that he did before, as evidenced by the sharp, paranoid look he gives in the rearview at the end of the movie. He wasn't the hero the first time, but the media portrayed him as one. This time, however, he may not get the same treatment from the press. As the credits end, we exit from the interior of the cab to a vast sea of headlights. This kind of person could be anyone and everyone.
"I do not believe that life should be dedicated to morbid self-attention. I believe that one should become a person, like other people."
This quote immediately precedes his infatuation, and subsequent obsession, with Betsy. I DO think that Travis is mentally ill. I think that the thinks that he sees as "sick [and] venal" compel him into a frenzy. The movie is about urban decay as much as it is about mental illness, or finding one's purpose. Travis sees himself as a crusader ridding the city of evil.
I don't know. I'm just kind of rambling. I really like this movie, though.
>>71595578
Nobody believes this movie
>>71595578
Because saving Private Ryan may have been the othe one decent thing they were able to pull out of that whole godawful, shitty mess.
>>71595575
I'm sorry, she was a man
>>71595444
What the fuck? Why has nobody checked this gentleman's trips?
Good triples.
