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Just watched “Taxi Driver” for the first time

posted 5 years ago by KatieHolland (95)
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I’m not sure if it’s movie I’m going to need to revisit a whole lot. But I enjoyed it. I took the ending at face value, that it’s reality, you?

[–] TexasJack (12516) 5 years ago

Yes, I never bought the other interpretations.

[–] KatieHolland (95) 5 years ago

I read somewhere that the screenwriter said the ending is 100% true. But my buddy think he could be lying. I mean, maybe? But that seems like a silly thing to lie about

My only complaint about the film is that it doesn’t give Iris much of a backstory

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77566) 5 years ago

Face value
Improbable...maybe, but in NYC during the 70s not terribly unlikely

[–] lud (5930) 5 years ago

I think ending was his dying dream.

How could he not to be in prison after he killed 4-5 people with illgeal gun? Even for movie standards,this was off.
Sorta kind of Birdman ending. It's still debatable.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

that's what I thought.

[–] Padeen (6459) 5 years ago

Your probably right, but cops were pretty crooked back then. Maybe when they realized this random guy who didn't even have a criminal record, rescued a young girl and took out of bunch of violent pimps, they looked the other way. Unlikely, but a possibility.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 5 years ago

It's not really debatable when the creative forces behind confirm that it's all real.

In fact, De Niro had been trying to get a sequel off the ground for years. Schrader didn't like the idea b/c he thought Bickle would've died within 6 months in some new crazy outburst. De Niro wanted to explore what Bickle would be like decades later.

I don't see what some others do in the end. It seems obvious to the last frame what's going on. There's gonna be more of this. He's not done.

[–] slimone (7996) 5 years ago

I was never able to figure out the ending. Maybe it was a dream, or reality? Who knows.