Taxi Driver

[Alfie]

Martin Scorseses Work of art is almost Comparable to Michelangelos Pieta Which this shows The Workingmans Struggle against the capitalist regime and how it surpresses them well tell me what you think. Well I though Robert De Niro Did A Great Performance.

[bluescouse]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19, 2007 05:18 am
Martin Scorseses Work of art is almost Comparable to Michelangelos Pieta Which this shows The Workingmans Struggle against the capitalist regime and how it surpresses them well tell me what you think. Well I though Robert De Niro Did A Great Performance.
This was a brilliant film, it sort of crontrasts the genuine working class guy against, the trendy lefty. Ie the studenty, political liberal, this even before we get to the dirtier issues of prostitution, and gangsterism. this has to be one of my favourite films of all times.

[Dr Mindbender]

Not to take anything away from the film, but it was hardly about the working mans struggle, it was a microcosm of the working class alienation that capitalism causes with its disastrous effects by focusing on the everyday life of one working class man.

[arthurseaton]

Y'wha? So Travis Bickle is a working-class hero? I think not. This is a great film, and is certainly about the destructive effects of atomised, capitalist society on the individual...but Bickle is a mentally ill psychopath. What has caused this is up for debate, that it has happened is not. Bickle's "political stance" is, if anything, probably similar to that of Timothy McVeigh's. We can sympathise with his predicament, but NOT with his views or actions! :huh:

(I reply to the original poster, not Ulster Socialist btw, who I agree with)

[Edgar]

From interviews with Scorsese that I've read, the film was primarily intended to be about how chronic and unchecked loneliness can affect the male psyche; and Bickle, after all, is one of the loneliest characters in film history. There's nothing in the career of Scorsese to suggest he would make a film that consciously critiques the alienation produced by the capitalist system.

[La Comédie Noire]

Probably my favorite film of all time. It's Scorsesey's finest piece. THe cinemaphotography is astounding!!