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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.

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.

What, that he is hailed as a hero?

Yes. It was an unprovoked attack, even if the people he killed were scum, and it would probably land him in prison.

Joe wrote:Yes. It was an unprovoked attack, even if the people he killed were scum, and it would probably land him in prison.

Who was left to tell the tale, but him?

Iris.

Joe wrote:Iris.

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?

Crown wrote:

Joe wrote:Iris.

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?

Yeah she was.

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?

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.

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?

I was nearly 100% conviced here ... unfortunately I kept reading in the thread to this post;

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.

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.