Taxi Driver

Possibly one of Martin Scorsese's best films. Mean Streets being a close second imho. Robert De Niro at his best too. It is the little subtle things that make this movie stand out from the rest. For example the scene where Travis pours schnapps on his cereal or when he is watching television holding the recently purchased .44 Magnum at his side. For a moment we think he is going to shoot the t.v. Instead he unintentionally pushes it over with his boots. While Travis's mental illness is never specifically identified his growing paranoia and growing distaste for New York leads me to believe it may be PTSD or something similar. His actions leading up to the climatic apartment building shootout, including clipping Sport aka Matthew, was brilliantly directed. The end has seen much debate. Some see it as Travis's death and some don't. My theory is that Travis in fact died and the events following didn't actually take place or were out of sequence to show the audience what things would have been like had the previous events not taken place. At any rate Taxi Driver was a brilliant film with a great screenplay written Paul Schrader.