Taxi Driver 1976

Taxi Driver 1976

Paper details One of the last shots in the film is an aerial shot of Travis Bickle lying in a pool of his own blood. The shot tracks across the crime scene and has been interpreted as representative of Bickle’s soul leaving his body. What does this suggest about the meaning of our character? Is he redeemed by his actions? Is he, like Alex in A Clockwork Orange, a good person simply because he has performed a service to society? Also, choose specific scenes, characters, events, shots, etc, from the film to ‘prove’ thesis