Taxi Driver – Movie (1976)
Friday, August 07
Doors: 6 pm Show: 7 pm
$2.75
“Taxi Driver” follows Travis Bickle, a lonely Vietnam veteran in 1970s New York, as he descends into obsession and violent vigilante fantasies amid urban decay.
In New York City, former Marine and Vietnam Warr veteran Travis Bickle takes a job as a night-shift taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia and loneliness, frequently visiting adult movie theaters on his breaks, and keeping a diary in which he consciously attempts to include aphorisms such as “you’re only as healthy as you feel”. He becomes disgusted with the crime and urban decay that he witnesses regularly in the city and dreams about getting “the scum off the streets”, recording these dreams in his diary. His narration throughout the film is largely conveyed through voice-over excerpts from his diary, which reveal his deteriorating mental state and deepening alienation from society.
2026 marks the 50th Anniversary of the film.