"God’s Lonely Man": A Descent into the Neon Underworld of Taxi Driver
The story follows Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a 26-year-old former U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran suffering from severe insomnia. To fill his sleepless nights, he takes a job as a taxi driver in New York City, a role that grants him an anonymous, front-row seat to what he perceives as the "scum" and moral decay of the mid-1970s metropolis. Taxi Driver Drama, Crime 1976 1h 54m 8.2
Travis is a "walking contradiction"—partly a man yearning for normalcy and partly a ticking time bomb of repressed rage. His attempts to connect with society are famously disastrous: "God’s Lonely Man": A Descent into the Neon