"Here is someone who stood up." (Taxi Driver Edit)

[@samuelc.9686]

He's the hero we deserved.

[@itsdamareontime2606]

That hero he brought out is in all of us but the hero goes 3 way first the hero does is heroic deed and becomes an enhanced version or becomes enhanced but becomes a villain with a heroic heart or the worst does nothing and ignores the call

[@crimxine6917]

​@@itsdamareontime2606simply Travis bickle is a human heiny

[@willardlarkinsnow5622]

He’s not a hero

[@sanyamudrui]

​@@willardlarkinsnow5622He is hero,you're just one of society's assholes.

[@MrJuan_Vzla]

Agree. We can't clean the sewers without getting dirty.

[@MildSatire]

I love the “push and pull” dynamic - at first we can be drawn into Travis’ perspective and relate to many aspects of it. But as he starts to distance himself from us through violence, we are able to pull back and reflect upon the monster we could become as easily as Travis. So many people are blind to the latter half and discount the movie as “film bro gigchad red pill” BS which really is unfortunate.

[@MildSatire]

Great edit too 👍

[@earzy9729]

Yeah, killing rapists and pedos and gang bangers, such a ''monster''

[@MildSatire]

@@earzy9729 Sure but the interesting thing is this desire for violence is aimless; at first he tries to assassinate Palantine. It’s pretty clear he’d also want to kill Betsy’s coworker too. The only reason he redirects this violence towards bad people is because the first attempt didn’t work. Yet society rewards him for this, even though it would’ve condemned him if his first attempt had worked. What do you think?

[@MildSatire]

@@earzy9729 I know it’s easy to relate to that cynical outlook that everyone is an animal. It’s true there are terrible people in the world, but we don’t have power to control that. We can only control our own actions and thoughts. Btw, Taxi Driver is my favorite movie of all time, seriously. Not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying maybe it would help you to look at it in a different way 👍 look at it like a meditation on these feelings of solitude and anger and desperation.

[@Ghost-vg6iq]

​@@MildSatireThe part of society he lives in a gutter and someone has to clean the gutters up. Hero has to be a monster but a controlled one as peterson says.

[@MightyKondrai]

captured the movies aesthetic very well in this edit with the scene, dialogue, and music choice. good job.

[@LauriePoetry]

I want him to give me a hug.

[@alexlemelin3217]

here is...

[@Floydgaming439]

Best edit ive seen so far

[@ronaldrussell5481]

Here is someone who is completely screwed up!

[@kevinuploadingwhatever]

nah he just based

[@tono6136]

​@@kevinuploadingwhateverXD

[@nico33909]

Hes not screwed up, the world is.

[@LauriePoetry]

The only man I’d call daddy

[@Lucky.exe_]

W edit!

[@ScottCole-sb8fy]

Unbelievable how good Deniro is.

[@cobra5088]

"I don't believe one should devote his life to morbid self attention" Sounds like the social media generation.

[@kevinuploadingwhatever]

✊

[@SirBolsón]

Martin Scorsese (ironically enough) said this was a "feminist film" in the sense of how Travis's (toxic??) masculinity is portrayed with how he views Iris (who he wants to save from her life as a child sex worker) & Betsy (a politically active, pretty normal woman who he tries dating but fails hard at it) basically living up to status as a "walking contradiction". Certainly one of the best, if not THE best """feminist""" films, unlike 2016's Ghostbusters and all the rest. Still, great video edit 👌🏼.

[@istarteverysentencewithbro]

if it is a feminist it became way more than that and has a much deeper or different meaning...

[@st0a]

No such thing as toxic masculinity.

[@SirBolsón]

@@st0a Never said it was; that's the reason I put a question mark on "(toxic??".

[@buckplug2423]

In a way. He has this obsession with being a knight, a hero - doing something great and noble not really thinking about the consequences of doing it. Happily, he sets his sights on scumbags that deserve it (maybe apart from the senator, that was purely selfish and immature). But yeah, he's definitely horrible when it comes to viewing women he likes - an object of his imagination, a symbol of some sort. And once he realises that they're actual people he gets furious. It's really sad to see just how lonely he was.

[@danielbarrera8391]

​@@st0a There absolutely is as much as there is toxic positivity. If anything toxic masculinity is more pervasive and damaging. It's basically a recipe for damaging the youth and relationships between people. Toxic masculinity is an avoidance of feeling and emotional processing. However, I haven't seen much of this movie except for some clips and don't draw the conclusion just yet that he is a toxic masculine person as much as he is struggling with social issues and a traumatic past that has essentially stunted his ability to form healthy relationships. But this is different from toxic masculinity which is like people telling you to suck it up or it's not that bad or to just stop caring. Toxic masculinity has more of a degree of consciousness to it than what Travis is displaying. People are more likely to relate to someone like Travis than someone who thinks life can be bulldozed past feelings.

[@Dante-it5bh]

Hi. What is the song ?

[@THEOGJIGSAWGMOD]

Retire (Final)

[@Ghost-vg6iq]

God's lonely man

[@oneanddonetzone3673]

What’s crazy is seeing Robert Dinero and his twisted ideologies his twisted politics now. It makes me sad. It makes it very difficult to watch anything he does I know he’s an actor but when you cross into becoming a political activist all doors are open