Wherever you stand on the film's sorest points, there is no denying the cultural impact of Taxi Driver and its ability to really make audiences think. Copied endless times since, Taxi Driver attracted criticism for its excessive violence, empathising with a serial killer/vigilante, and casting of a talented 12-year-old Jodie Foster as a child prostitute, a performance that earned her an Academy Award nomination. With a riveting script from Paul Schrader, a unique score from Bernard Herrmann and anchored by a masterful performance from Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver showed Scorsese at the height of his powers with a film that tapped into cultural moods and the dark recesses of the human mind. Now a lonely tax driver, we watch as Bickle slowly descends into madness before making plans to brutally murder the men who he sees as villains in this world. Simultaneously one of the greatest films of all time and also one of the most controversial, Taxi Driver is an efficiently alienating portrait of a troubled Vietnam War veteran named Travis Bickle.
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