A walking contradiction taxi driver

 · He's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walking contradiction. - Taxi Driver. Sunday, J. Solo. For about five years now, my two best friends and I have been planning on taking a trip outside the Philippines. Individually, we are relatively well travelled, so one would think that planning a trip would be a breeze.  · In “Taxi Driver,” this psychological profile is explored, and it gets pretty uncomfortable. A walking contradiction. This is a conversation that happens early in the film when Travis is on a date with Betsy (Cybil Shepherd). She says he reminds her of a Kris Kristofferson song, and emphasizes the line about ‘walking contradictions.’. Travis Bickle is a lonely and depressed young man a living in Manhattan - he suffers from heavy depression living most of his life alone. He becomes a night time taxi driver in order to cope with his chronic insomnia, working hour shifts nearly every night, carrying passengers around all five boroughs of New York City.

Travis is a walking contradiction. He is disgusted by sex and by prostitutes, yet he surrounds himself with pornography and takes prostitutes around in his cab. He wants to be good to his body, yet he constantly takes pills and pours schnapps on his breakfast. Betsy, of course, knows nothing about these quirks. Director: Martin Scorsese. Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel. Genre: Crime, Drama. Rating: R (Restricted) Runtime: minutes. Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. In “Taxi Driver,” this psychological profile is explored, and it gets pretty uncomfortable. A walking contradiction. This is a conversation that happens early in the film when Travis is on a date with Betsy (Cybil Shepherd). She says he reminds her of a Kris Kristofferson song, and emphasizes the line about ‘walking contradictions.’.

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