Books that are similar to movie Taxi Driver

Should I just bite the bullet and give movies another chance?
Is "kino" worth it?

you haven't watched this one?

I don't watch movies

why?

it's already too late for you. stick to whatever you're doing.

It's surprising how many young teenagers watch this movie and see Travis as some sort of a hero.

He was the hero though

If a young man living in a city hasn’t felt like Travis at least once there’s probably something wrong with him

Meme Psychosis

Did he died? Or nah

Such as what?
The parallels you could draw with Travis and Raskolnikov are not particularly striking from my perspective.

He was an anti-hero you were supposed to see as a weirdo, not sympathize with.

New Testament Apocrypha.

That's not how he comes off.

You weren't supposed to feel empathy!

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Yeah, you are totally supposed to relate to the guy, that's lost all ambition in life, is easily manipulated, and disconnected from reality. He's just like me, right? Maybe I should just relate to this absurd character and not make any effort to change. Taxi Driver is not Drive, where this archetype is glorified as some silent badass. Trevor shows that these sort of weirdos get left behind in life. The tragedy of the character is that he's not dumb, except for being uneducated, and he's also sort of good looking, so every mistake he makes, is of his own doing. That's the moral of the film.

>Yeah, you are totally supposed to relate to the guy, that's lost all ambition in life, is easily manipulated, and disconnected from reality. He's just like me, right?
But that's unironically the average Yea Forums poster.

Travis is a character full of contradictions. He's not necessarily a good guy nor a bad guy. He's damaged and complex like many human beings. I'll be lying to myself if I say that I didn't see some parts of myself in him. The loneliness, the shyness, the impotence, the social ineptitude. I think young men can relate to him to some extent but his tale is a cautionary tale of alienation and madness and excess. It should not be seen as a justification for bad behavior and mental issues.

He's not supposed to be you exactly but is the little guy in all of our heads. We are not Travis Bickle but we could easily become him.

>we
Unless you're a woman, of course.
Then you'll never be understand his plight and disconnect from society.

As a guy who's quite similar to Travis I can say from experience that though the mistakes we make might be of our own doing we only realize that with hindsight. We haven't decided, "I think I'm going to self-destruct." What happens is you enter an unhealthy frame of mind, your view of the world becomes distorted, you start behaving strangely, and yet it always feels like the world is the problem, and maybe in some ways it is.

last exit to brooklyn

N-no! You can't relate to Travis, he's a bad person and a complete psycho path!

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The Diary of Arthur Bremer
Libra

>Yeah, you are totally supposed to relate to the guy, that's lost all ambition in life, is easily manipulated, and disconnected from reality

Do you even have a soul? Imagine some faggot claiming that romeo and julliet were retarded since only melodramatic fools would kill themselves over love - and that the moral was prudence or something

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>kills a nigger
>a bad person
Umm...

That's a bad fucking analogy. Romeo and Juliet were trapped by the circumstances around them. Travis just has bad character traits that were his own conditioning from alienating the rest of the world. Instead of seeking self-improvement after his failures, he goes down the deep end. Sure, he was redeemed a little in the end, but not entirely.

Also I just realized I've been calling him Trevor the entire thread. It has been like 5 years since I saw the film for the last time.

>that the moral was prudence or something
It's a comedy mocking young love

>bla bla bla why didn't he read jordan peterson and self improve

bro...

>self improvement is bad because muh boogeyman

How does it feel to be a spineless idiot? Enjoy dying bitter in your mess for refusing to change.

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it's called empathy you absolute pleb, he's alienated and mentally ill, probably fucked up from the war

>that's lost all ambition in life
The whole film he tries to create meaning and value out of nothing, and succeeds.
>is easily manipulated
Where and how?
>disconnected from reality
He percieves naked reality and don't close his eyes on that, unlike middle-class girl or politician he interacts with. How is he disconnected?

>that's lost all ambition in life
I dunno, bro, he wants to be a taxi driver. Not the most prestigious career path.
>is easily manipulated
Got tangled in political party over a woman and the racist jew making him hate black people
>disconnected from reality
He literally takes his date to a porn film. He obviously has no idea how human interactions work.

Most of his idea of reality comes from bunch of bitter assholes, like the older taxi drivers. Every time he did good, came from inner motivation, not an attempt to interpret someone else views in practice. All his attempts at rejoining society were not him being himself, which made everything he did dishonest. In the end he was gullible character, with good honest traits buried deep inside him. He does remind me of so many people on this site, like someone mentioned earlier in this thread.

>not sympathize with
That's simply wrong, the movie is told from his point of view for fuck sake. If it was supposed to demonize him or only see him as an absolute fool, we wouldn't have so many intimate scenes, and diary excerpts, and voice overs telling his simple, and flawed, but human thought process. He's an empty shell of a human being in an even emptier shell of a city. If you haven't thought similar thoughts to Travis Bickle while walking down the street you're simply part of the problem.
>Maybe I should just relate to this absurd character and not make any effort to change.
Wrong again, we can see ourselves in him and feel agony for our lives. Just because you sympathize with a character doesn't mean at all that you'll emulate his behavior.
>Taxi Driver is not Drive, where this archetype is glorified as some silent badass.
Exactly, and only 90IQ retards see his behavior as "badass" or anything like that. To the rest of reasonably intelligent people who do sympathize with him, they feel the normal attitude to tragedy, where you can see yourself in a character and think "i'm not alone, other humans are going to similar situations".

>through similar situations

You seem to misinterpret my original point, and part of that is probably my fault for not expressing it clearly enough. I was in the exact shoes of Travis, and in fact at the time when I watched the film. Problem is, I see a lot of people idolizing Travis. You can rationalize his behavior to a point, but you need to also see his mistakes, and realize if you don't want to be like him, you need to do something with your life. It's debatable if Travis ever fully discovered what's wrong with him, but lucky for us we have this film as sort of a mirror, that if we see ourselves in this character, perhaps is a good idea to not fall in the same mistakes as him.

tom perrotta's

all about a mentally ill violent vigilante hunting pedo's while the normal world goes on being pathetic bourgeois could-have-been's

At least we have better discussing about this movie than faggots at Yea Forums where it's all about "lol incel"

Raskolnikov is more similar to al-Qaeda