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UNITED STATES · 1976

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese
New Hollywood urban decay mental illness isolation vigilantism moral corruption
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Synopsis

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Year1976
CountryUnited States
DirectorMartin Scorsese
MovementNew Hollywood
Cinematic Threads
When I saw Taxi Driver when I was 16, I was blown away by it. I had never seen a movie with such an impressive portrayal of an alienated character, or of an urban environment at night.
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