MOVIE SUMMARY: Taxi Driver

The Plot:
The Movie Taxi Driver is about a depressed and lonely young man, his night time job is to drive a cab in New York city. In his Night rounds he feels unmotivated, disillusioned, he also suffers chronic insomnia, consequently he doesn't rest or stays at home, he just wastes his spare time driving around all Manhattan. In this drives, Travis (the taxi driver) sees all kind of people: drug dealers, pimps, criminals. Disgusted by what he witnesses while driving through the city, he decides to get organized and starts getting in shape. He buys a number of pistols from an illegal dealer, SINCE his intention is to clear up the city of New York from the crime and drugs. Driving his cab, Travis, meets a 12 years old prostitute, whose life is being manipulating by a pimp. Travis tries to convince her to quit with the pimp, but she is too afraid and confused.
Travis, whose goal is to end the crime, gets obsess and mentally ill trying to help her, 'til the point he shots the pimp, and kill all the bodyguards of that specific prostitution business.

My Opinion:
Taxi Driver is a Great movie, it's so realistic, and it's shows how is the city of Manhattan, it shows how contrasting and problematic it is, especially at night time. Since the movies only show us a part of Manhattan, everyone who hasn't been there pictures in his mind a totally wrong image of what the city really is, and even some of the people who have visit the city still don't know what the city of Manhattan represents, because they've only stay on the crowed places, places where any tourists won't miss. Those people only know the time square, central park, wall street, the sky dooms, business area etc... but they never went to the neighborhoods on Manhattan , they didn't even take the subway, because if they did, they would think different about the city. I've been in Manhattan, and I loved, ain't what i expected dough. Manhattan is a combination of extremity rich area in the south, contrasting with a poverty society you never imagined. Is that combination that made New York so attractive for me. If you bother to visit fully around Manhattan you'll discover wonderful things as the extremity multicultural population ( Chinatown, little Itali, etc...), but on the other hand you realize the decline of the society,( poor living, thousands of homeless, deterioration of the popular and middle class neighborhoods). It's all this wiew of the city that is shown in the movie, and that makes Travis mental sick.
Also it shows good how it's the character of Travis, a psicotic young man who is alienated without any kind of studies or motivations. The Movie is critic to the American society, because is shown to us the corruption and prostitution that takes in Manhattan.
I definetly recomend this movie to anyone whose intention is to have a realistic view of the American society, but not for people whose interest is only to wast his spare time.