Taxi Driver

"Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape." There are plenty of films criticizing American society, but never before and after Taxi Driver have we had such a raw and delusional picture of that country. Travis Bickle is lonely, or how he defines himself he is:"Gods lonely man". In search of an escape from this loneliness he decides to become a taxi driver, hoping to take part in the nightlife of society, but this ironically distances him even further from society itself. During the course of the film we understand how his solitude is not material but existential, the character played by one of the most important actors in the history of cinema is alienated from the society, he lives in a bubble that bursts at a specific point in the movie. Travis's character is the emblem of everything that was wrong with American society at that time, and that really (and that's what makes the movie amazing) is still a precise photograph of what that society is today.