Taxi driver

A director who can take you to the streets of Boston or New York or any other city of US and make the conflicts of Italian or Irish generation as a running documentary of life on those streets,who can capture the inner soul of a depressed man who want to vanish all the pathetic things like prostitution,drug dealing.That’s the basic plot of “Taxi Driver” and the living legend director is “Martin Scorsese”.

This movie is all about conflicts of a deep soul who didn’t like to be a part of shit hole poverty and social condition of 70s of US.

A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.

Scorsese’s best.Same you can say for Robert De Niro.

The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture (but lost to Rocky) and received thePalme d’Or, at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. It has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Taxi Driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley, Jr. which triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Hinckley stated that his actions were an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster, on whom Hinckley was fixated, by mimicking Travis’s Mohawked appearance at the Palantine rally. His attorney concluded his defense by playing the movie for the jury.