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"AFTER A WHILE, everyone becomes his job," declares the self-proclaimed Wizard of New York cabbies to Travis. The Wizard (Peter Boyle) holds court in the fluorescent, all-night Bellmore Cafeteria, nocturnal stalking ground for taxi drivers and absurdly elegant pimps. The Wizard makes his remarks self-deprecatingly, dismisses them...
For screenwriter Paul Schrader, the taxi driver is a metaphor for modern, urban man. The taxi driver will go anywhere for money, and is forced to see everything, all the degredation and cruelty men are capable of, but always with the understanding that he will remain outside, uninvolved and untouched...
He comes to New York an innocent. We know little about him--he's in his mid-twenties, he mentions that he was in the army, and he maintains a deceptive correspondence with his parents. Travis tells the dispatcher that he wants to drive a taxi because he can't...
It's experience he craves, but what he finds disgusts him. A passenger (played by Scorsese) describes to Travis the .44 magnum holes he will make in his adulterous wife's body, and through it all Travis is expected to stare straight ahead. The camera cuts between the back of...
Travis tries desperately to make some sort of contact with the world, but he is systematically rebuffed. The macadam mob--taxi-dispatchers, hookers, pornographic movie-house vendors--looks at him with sullen, suspicious eyes. The claustrophobic routinization of their lives, the daily bombardment of the senses, has forced them into...