483557, Fair enough. I personally like it because it's interesting to me to
Posted by ZooTown74, Tue Oct-27-09 03:04 PM
look at this character, this borderline-psychotic cat who looks at the world around him, thinks that it sucks, and decides that the only way to "wash everything away" is to try to assassinate a politician and then personally "save" a young girl from depravity... in other words, he thinks he can affect change in the world by committing acts of violence... now, it has been suggested by both Scorsese and Schrader that Bickle is a Vietnam war veteran...
The way he relates (or fails to relate) to women in this movie is also quite fascinating to me, and became even more fascinating when I read that Paul Schrader wrote this movie after a serious bout of depression after breaking up with a girlfriend and losing his apartment...
I'm also fascinated with (the alluring grit of) 1970's New York, which also, in a way, a character in the movie, like all good 70's movies set in NYC were (stuff like Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The French Connection, etc)...
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