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tis ne film die ge ni rap beu zijt gezien en iedere keer as gem opnieuw bekijkt, merkt ge details op die ge de vorige keren mistte. De film handelt vooral over eenzaamheid, de isolatie van één man in een maatschappij vol uitschot. Zn doel is in feite om met da uitschot af te rekenen. Het feit da em taxi driver is wordt eig metaforisch gebruikt. Tis ook e beeke ironisch want een stad vol mensen kan de eenzaamste plaats voor een man zijn in zijn 'ding'. De lange n8en in de stad, het n8leven vol met hoeren, drugsverslaafden, dieven, etc. spelen een grote rol in Travis (De Niro) zn leven. Travis zoekt gezelschap, of zoals em zegt: 'loneliness has followed me all my life, everywhere', ma hij probeert er nix aan te doen om deze situatie te vermijden, en da zien we goed wanneer hij met Betsy (Cybill Sheperd) naar een porn flick gaat kijke De soundtrack gecomponeerd door Bernard Herrmann, is uiteraard ook dikke emo muziek, ma het grijpt u wel aan gelijk de tension in ne goeie thriller. Ik kan nix slechts/negatiefs over de film zegge simpelweg omdak nix slechts/negatiefs gevonden heb Naar venant de film van 1976 is, is het zeker gene 'old-fashioned' movie, omdat de verhaalessentie, de realiteit waarin het wordt teweeggebr8 perfect kan worden geprojecteerd op het heden. En zoals ik in de eerste zin al zei, de legendarische one-liner You talkin' to me? Dit is een authentiek meesterwerk!
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Taxi Driver is one of the best films ever made. This is one of those films that you do not get tired of seeing and every time you watch it you realize a little detail that you have not seen before. Excellent actors, a good director, an impressive soundtrack and a real story are the main appeals of this film.
This film is about loneliness, about the isolation of a man in a society full of scum. His objective is to finish with the scum of the streets. The story uses a taxi driver as a metaphor of loneliness and it has some kind of irony because we can see that a city which is full of people can be the most lonely place for a man. The long nights in the city, the night environment full of whores, junkies, pimps and thieves are the main elements of the world in which Travis Bickle lives. Travis is an misunderstood guy who is seeking desperately for some kind of company because as he says 'loneliness has followed me all my life, everywhere' but at the same time he seems not to do anything to avoid his situation and it is seen when he goes with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) to a porn cinema. At the end of the film the character makes real his most violent fantasies, with a look of certain soldiers from Vietnam, and he behaves like this because of his loneliness, his alienation and because he does not find any sense to his life. The violent behaviour becomes Travis into a hero, although he had killed many people and he could do it again. Although he acts with an extreme violence the spectator understand him and the reasons why he acts that way. The soundtrack of the film, which is composed by Bernard Herrmann, inspires some kind of loneliness and sometimes it is absolutely terrifying like in a horror film. This music and the slow camera showing the streets help to introduce the spectator into the world of Travis, to know what he is thinking about.
In general I cannot say any negative aspect of this film because I have not found anything bad. Although it is a film of the 70s it is not an old-fashioned movie because the essence of the story, the reality that is shown on it, can be perfectly referred to the current society. This film has the privilege of having made famous the sentence ‘You talking' to me? You talking' to me?' which will remain in the history of cinema. This is an authentic masterpiece. |
Prachtig vertaald van imdb lol
maar kga er wel volledig mee akkoord
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