Why did Travis want to kill Sen. Charles Palantine? [To get the attention of Cybil Shephard's character.]
Taxi Driver (1976) - 3 questions
Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro
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Why did Travis want to kill Sen. Charles Palantine? [To get the attention of Cybil Shephard's character.] Is there an official explanation to the ending of the movie? Some people say that it was Travis's dream sequence, and others say it was Travis going back to his manic depressive self again. What caused Travis to get so startled when he was looking at the rear vision mirror? Did Scorsese deliberately make the ending very vague or is there supposed to be an explanation to the ending? [This is just my opinion. Remember Iris's line "Have you ever tried looking at your own eyeballs in the mirror?" or something to that effect. Well, Travis sees the madness reflected in his own eyes, doesn't like what he sees (as it reminds him of what he has done, what he might yet do).] When Travis goes into his fitness phase, it shows him hovering his fist over the stove fire. Why is he doing this? What does that achieve? [It helps him create a tolerance for pain. As we see, he certainly gets a lot of that dished out to him.]You may also like: Star Wars | The Shining | Titanic | The Simpsons | Goodfellas