Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) - a fair man

“Taxi Driver” is a movie that’s really haunting me with a powerful insistence. It’s every two months that I need to watch this movie once again. However, what’s the most bizarre thing is that when I read about the main character of “Taxi Driver”, Travis Bickle, I find out that the critics have mainly considered him just a mad man, a crazy, paranoid fellow. That’s rather a strange opinion. For me, Travis Bickle is just the very single individual that really sees the reality, the way that things are really happening.

Furthermore, Bickle is the only one who decides that it’s time for someone to do something! Still, I don’t want to legitimate the political crimes; I don’t think that Scorsese though about this when he directed this movie. I just want to signalize the fact that Travis Bickle’s are correct, consonant to his culture and surroundings (Let’s not forget the great deal of political crimes that exists in the history of the United States). Bickle is not blamable and should not be called a paranoid man.

He is the only fellow of the crowd who can really see the evil surrounding all of them…, but he’s considered insane. Probably, he’s neither the first, nor the last problematic character that Scorsese has ever created. I’m thinking about Bill ‘The Butcher’ Cutting, for example, from “The Gang of New York”, who is bad character, but whom one is able to understand, without wishing him any ill. It’s hard to believe that somebody that lived the realities of New York, in the 70s, could also consider that Bickle was crazy. However, Scorsese ‘teaches’ his character how to act, by passing him the guilt of crime, but not without leaving open many clear windows towards the soul of Travis Bickle… Folks, he was no crazy man!

[tags]Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Martin Scorsese[/tags]

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