Taxi Driver Ending
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Taxi Driver Ending
OK, I just saw this movie for the first time and am a bit confused. Is the ending sequence a dream, or Bickle's dying thoughts? I find it hard to believe that it could be real.
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Re: Taxi Driver Ending
What, that he is hailed as a hero?Joe wrote:OK, I just saw this movie for the first time and am a bit confused. Is the ending sequence a dream, or Bickle's dying thoughts? I find it hard to believe that it could be real.
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
Yes. It was an unprovoked attack, even if the people he killed were scum, and it would probably land him in prison.
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I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
Who was left to tell the tale, but him?Joe wrote:Yes. It was an unprovoked attack, even if the people he killed were scum, and it would probably land him in prison.
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
She wouldn't dob him in, she couldn't even dob her pimps in ... it's been a while sicne I watched the movie, but wasn't she re-united with her family at the end?Joe wrote:Iris.
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
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Gunshy
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I always figured it was his last fantasy before dying. I mean, everything just worked out too perfectly for it not to be. Not only that, but IIRC, when Travis and Iris are in the coffee shop, she says, "When are you going to look at your own eyes in the mirror?" And right after he drops off Cybil Shepard, he looks directly into his Taxi's rear view mirror, showing his eyes. Maybe his final reflection of what he truly wanted to see?
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You're reading way too much into it. He shot a bunch of child-selling pimps, nobody else was left alive to tell the tale, so they let him go and the media spun it up into a hero story.
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I was nearly 100% conviced here ... unfortunately I kept reading in the thread to this post;Gunshy wrote:I always figured it was his last fantasy before dying. I mean, everything just worked out too perfectly for it not to be. Not only that, but IIRC, when Travis and Iris are in the coffee shop, she says, "When are you going to look at your own eyes in the mirror?" And right after he drops off Cybil Shepard, he looks directly into his Taxi's rear view mirror, showing his eyes. Maybe his final reflection of what he truly wanted to see?
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:You're reading way too much into it. He shot a bunch of child-selling pimps, nobody else was left alive to tell the tale, so they let him go and the media spun it up into a hero story.
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
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Gunshy
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That's what's wrong with this place...everyone here is just too god damn practical. Still, I like my overly complicated view of the ending.
Still, I like my overly complicated view of the ending."In the new trilogy, Anakin Skywalker portrays a damning indictment of technology's modern dehumanization of mankind through Hayden Christensen's lifeless, almost inhuman performance. There is a river of tragedy in every robotic line he utters, a horrific monotonal indication of his cyborgal fate."-Dr. Albert Oxford, PhD