Taxi Driver

Why is this movie so relatable robots

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for me its the ending

because the story follows a man's mind degrading into madness from loneliness. even though this movie was made decades before all the incel stuff, travis basically follows the same patterns as incels do. the movie at its core is about loneliness, which is something robots live with 24/7

It captures the heart of soul-crushing, brain-rotting loneliness up until the last half hour or so when the dumb loli roastie shows up.

I saw this movie for the first time earlier this year. I connect with Travis so much.

I just want out man. I can't take it anymore.

Relates to a vietnam vet with obvious PTSD that goes twice as insane and plots to kill several people for stupid reasons when he ruins it with a pretty woman by being autistic and taking her to a porno on a date.

Taxi Driver is a great movie, but if you relate to Travis, you probably didn't understand it very well and aren't as cool and edgy as you think you are.

>Relates to a vietnam vet with obvious PTSD
that stuff is hardly touched on in the movie at all though. that stuff is all just supposed to be a background for the main theme of the movie; loneliness.

Without being ex military, Travis wouldn't have been off his rocker to start. Though, you aren't wrong by any means identifying ONE of the themes.

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Travis being a vet has nothing to do with his mental break down. Being drafted was supposed to demonstrate how America treated him unfairly.

The reason hes made to be a Vietnam vet, especially a marine (Marines werent drafted) is to show hes the type to join an very unpopular pointless war just for the chance to kill people.

Marines were all volunteer

>but if you relate to Travis
You're supposed to empathize with him. It was designed this way deliberately. If you didn't understand it, you're probably a sociopath.

there are many situations where someone can end up in total loneliness, being a vet with PTSD just happens to be one of those situations. if travis' backstory was as central to the plot as you make it out to be it would have had more screentime but instead we literally just get a line or two about his past in the marines (and PTSD is never outright stated)

I got a new blu-ray for this recently. Saw it once before, only remember some parts vaguely. The only question is when to see it.

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I didn't realize I said empathy! Oh wait, I didn't? I didn't mention anything about empathy? Oh. Okay. Cool, cool.

PTSD didn't exist as a term at the time of filming the movie. The quote in the picture from the Martin himself says it's incredibly important that the audience KNOWS he is a Vet.

>hes the type to join an very unpopular pointless war just for the chance to kill people.
never thought of it that way
i never try to overthink scorsese films (he's the same guy who put a rat at the end of the departed) but i think he put a lot of heart into travis's story in taxi driver. people always say it's just ptsd but travis clearly has some mental issues that clearly have nothing to do with war
see it again before summer ends and late at night

>I didn't realize I said empathy! Oh wait, I didn't? I didn't mention anything about empathy? Oh. Okay. Cool, cool.
You have the emotional development of a 14 year old girl.

PTSD is a part of his eventual break, not all of. I never intended to say it was his soul reason for going Rambo and my bad if it came accross as such. The many mental malfunctions he has are never officially determined, but it's safe to say he has multiple issues.

Exclude the debate that you're having a hard time with and go straight for the poster. You keep looking even smarter with every post.

>Exclude the debate that you're having a hard time with and go straight for the poster. You keep looking even smarter with every post.
I didn't think your response was worth debating. It was just you jacking yourself off. Why would I reward that behavior?

>soul reason
Sounds like a blaxploitation Sherlock Homes.

Your original post included an insult after incorrectly associating my point about 'relating' to Travis to 'empathy'. I ask you the same question, why would I reward that behavior? I'm not going to be polite to someone who begins with being an asshole. Also, you're tagging my post already. You don't really need to green text the whole thing as it's pretty redundant.

I completly feel for Travis, by the way. Everyone that loves the movie probably does. I have never heard anyone disliking him as a flawed protagonist. That doesn't mean anyone in their right frame of mind should relate, or they probably suffer from one or more of his mental issues.

>Your original post included an insult after incorrectly associating my point about 'relating' to Travis to 'empathy'. I ask you the same question, why would I reward that behavior? I'm not going to be polite to someone who begins with being an asshole. Also, you're tagging my post already. You don't really need to green text the whole thing as it's pretty redundant.
>I completly feel for Travis, by the way. Everyone that loves the movie probably does. I have never heard anyone disliking him as a flawed protagonist. That doesn't mean anyone in their right frame of mind should relate, or they probably suffer from one or more of his mental iss
>he wrote all this garbage to protect his fragile ego when I'm not even debating
Blow it out your ass.

Got me on that one. I'm so ashamed.

Will do, thanks. I'm going to go masturbate for winning an online argument with a massive retard like you.

>Will do, thanks. I'm going to go masturbate for winning an online argument with a massive retard like you.

Thank you for the shitpost (You), friendo.

>Thank you for the shitpost (You), friendo.
Literally about to cum.

Blow it in your ass.

Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck

I'M EMPATHIZING SO HARDDDDDD

communeth with thine dickhole

Just comment the word "relate" in greentext and I will cover the earth in my ejaculate.

Im sure you say this in your stained beater that was once white, room littered with junk food wrappers, thinning hairline and mom on speed dial

I think most people have at least one moment in their life where they really become so fed up with the game of life that they just want to go out guns blazing. For robot types it probably appeals more because they experience that point more often than normal people. But I don't think its a particularly robot experience. I think 99% of people can relate to it in some way.