You know, it has caught my attention that even though I named this blogg Movies, Books and Anything else, I seldomly ever talk about Movies, Books or Anything Else. Which is why today I'm gonna dedicate this space to the imediate movie I can ever think about, the one movie that when someone asks me "hey, What's your favorite movie?", it's the the first to pop into my head...before about a hundred other movies I've seen come out.
Rendering what I firmly believe to be Robert DeNiro's finest hour in acting and giving him the signature catchphrase, the one thing that's believed every actor is granted in his/her lifetime.
*You talking to me*
Classic. This has to be the most contemporary, cultural and sociological Anti-hero. Honestly people, I mean, Al Pacino is by far my favorite actor, and to me, even Tony Montana (Scarface, for those who seem lost) comes out like a punk bitch compared to this guy.
I would like to take this space and remind you that, once again, this is my opinion and you're in all your right to differ from my point of view. Just, don't waste your time telling me about it (as if).
So, why do I preffer to have the hots for this carachter rather than all the other bad-asses that have been inmortalized by the big screen. Simply put, he was by far the most human. Taxi Driver is a raw, dark, twisted and very violent movie, and not because of the blood shed, but because it's social remark. The movie starts with Travis Bickle (DeNiro) asking for a job as a, ejem, taxi driver because he has a severe case of insomnia. But that's not just it. Early in the movie, actually from that scene on we know for sure that Travis is a very disturbed man. The movie never actually says it, but his mood and the way he dresses (An olive green jacket, oviously from the army) suggest that Travis has just returned from Viet-Fuckin-nam. He's constant monologues about how he feels about life and the city and everything else make it a fact, this man hates society and is more confortable living on the underground. His impulse to do good by doing bad things, his alienation from a decadent world in which the wicked rule and (as he sees it) the others must play along. It's just beautiful. Set in the grimm side of New York City with a jazz soundtrack that chills the bones, and portraying how a man that is so fed up with all the bullshit, dicides to train himself in order to fight all evil. Taxi Driver, one of the best movies ever made, and that's a Fact Jack.
Here are some quotes from Travis.
*The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.*
*All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.*
*Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood. I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.*
SEE YA ON THA FLIP SIDE
