If you look closely, there is nothing special about this film. Robert De Niro's character drives a taxi through New York City at night, writes his diary along the way, meets girls, spins a gun in front of a mirror all day long and tells himself how cool he is. Everything seems to be in an ordinary average movie, but it is saturated with some magic or something. I don't even know, but when I looked, I couldn't take my eyes off. Maybe it's because of the music that was in that film that was just wonderful, maybe it's because of the atmosphere of the seventies, which the director conveyed just wonderfully. I don't know. But it's all separate.
Directing:
It just so happened that before the taxi driver, I watched three Martin Scorsese films ("The Aviator, Gangs of New York and The Departed), and I liked them so much that I expected a lot from this film. And all my expectations were met. Although these three later works of the director, I still liked it better, but each film is good in its own way. As in this film, he perfectly conveyed the atmosphere of New York of the seventies. New York in this film is not just a city, it is one of the heroes of the film. He has his own character. If you live with him in peace, close your eyes to all this filth, the rabble of people, then you will live calmly, but if you push him in the heart, you just die. Milos Forman had done something similar a year earlier in his legendary film Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but it was much smaller. The film depicts the struggle of one “little” man with one big social system. That's even an indicative dialogue between a presidential candidate and a taxi driver. When he asked, “What is wrong with you?” De Niro replied that he was tired of all this dirt on the streets of the city, and that he wanted to flush it down the toilet. You should have seen the candidate's face, it was written on it. It's like, "Boy, what are you talking about, there's an army of them here, it's not possible." All this Scorsese quite reliably transferred to the screen.
Acting game:
I won't say too much here. Robert De Niro liked the role of an outlaw vigilante. He always looks very convincing in all films, and here it is the same. I really liked the hippie, pimp actor Harvey Keitel. Young Jodie Foster also looks very decent.
Screenplay:
There are no complaints under the script. Great story, which I briefly told at the beginning. There's nothing more to add. I really enjoyed Robert De Niro playing with his guns. At the end of the day, of course. Of course, I knew that this would be the case, but I still expected it to be a little different. Well, the musical design of course at the height, although it reminds me more of the music of the 30s than the 70s, but the composer knows better, and in the film it merges very organically.
In general, a wonderful film, with wonderful music, denouement, acting and brilliant directing work.
9.5 out of 10
And my best wishes to watch.
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