Taxi Driver

once again just an utterly fantastic performance from de niro in a film that lives up to its reviews. the ending has me puzzled however. was it real, i know scorsese has been on record as to say it’s real. that betsy did enter the car with travis. but it just seems too nice, especially for scorsese. the immediate reaction from me was that travis died, either on the night of the shootout, or later on in hospital. that betsy was not betsy, but maybe an angel showing herself as betsy. obviously i don’t believe that she would have been intended to be an angel in the literal sense, but maybe that’s how travis depicts her in his head - that was the last thing his brain could conjure up before he passed away. or maybe it’s real and travis has embellished and romanticised it in his head making it more than it truly is. the ending felt really good until i found out that scorsese said that it was real. knowing that hurt it for me as it felt too on the nose. therefore, i’m just going to carry on as if what i thought was right. 9.5/10