Hate Through The Eyes Of An Innocent--A film analysis of TAXI DRIVER

Hate Through The Eyes Of An Innocent--A film analysis of TAXI DRIVER. What do you get when you take a Mohawk-wearing racist and honorably discharged Marine suffering from PTSD who lives alone, with no children, no girlfriend, and stick him in a double-shift New York City taxicab at night? You get Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film Taxi Driver. Travis Bickle has trouble readjusting to civilian life and spends a lot of time riding the subways in New York to pass the time.

According to Paul Schrader, the inspiration for the script for Taxi Driver arose from loneliness and despair following a divorce break up with a live in girlfriend. He wrote Taxi Driver in 2 weeks which was the time he lived in his car following his break up with his live in girlfriend. My favorite line in the film is Betsy telling Travis that he reminds her of a line from Kris Kristofferson's song The Pilgrim Chapter 33 which says "He's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction—a walking contradiction."

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