Taxi Driver
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Taxi Driver

1976Movie1 h 54 minR

CrimeDrama
88
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.2Letterboxd4.1/5Metacritic948.6
88
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.2Letterboxd4.1/5Metacritic948.6

Summary

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

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  • Friends night
  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults

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  • Weighs on you.
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  • Pulls you in.
  • Leaves you shaken.
  • Makes you care deeply.

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Delusions of Eloquencein 141 titlesTravis Bickle constantly suffers from this.Unbuilt Tropein 526 titlesThe final shootout looks like a deconstruction of every action film shootout ever made: There are no flashy edits or jump cuts, no musical cues, no improbably cool weapons or marksmanship and it bare…All 134 tropes

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