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I take issue with 2 points

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Posted by monsanto on October 21, 1999 at 13:29:48

In Reply to: "Taxi Driver" : A Review posted by AudioHead on October 20, 1999 at 09:37:16:

first, i don't think travis was testing betsy at the porno. travis is an enigma. he's socially inept, lonely, and the fact that he hated the "scumbags" but still watched porn goes to show you that he cannot be easily dissected. second, after reading some comments on another website concerning the ending, i'm not so sure that travis was actually made a hero. remember the ending? he picks up betsy and drives her home in his cab. he drops her off in a nice, upscale, tree-lined neighborhood. as he drives away he looks into his rearview mirror and does a doubletake. why? because in an instant, he's no longer in that nice area. he's in the brightly lit times square district. back in his hell. this makes me wonder if travis ever did pick betsy up for that ride or if he was ever a newspaper hero for saving the prostitute. maybe it's all in his head. he killed the pimps and is still living his horrible life and has manufactured this hero status. maybe the ending is all in his imagination? another explanation that interests me is the possibility that travis is dead at the end of the movie. he dies in the shootout. and the movie from that point on is his afterlife -- his desire to be a hero combined with the hell of driving a cab in midtown new york.

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