Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) begins his career as a taxi driver in 1970s New York city. His life seems normal enough, but under the surface, waiting to break through is a fierce amount of violence. This flame of violence is fanned by an ever increasing disgust for what this taxi driver sees on the streets: scum of the earth, death, and the exploitation of a girl (Jodie Foster) that is only twelve and a half years as a prostitute. His ultimate fate is violence.

The setting is just about the most genuine and gritty setting you could get in a movie. New York in the '70s is a pretty scary place.

Although the violent part of the ending is plausible and realistic, what ultimately happens to the cabbie does not seem very likely (I won't ruin it).

Like I was in the streets of 1970s New York.

Robert De Niro plays Travis the troubled cabbie. Jodie Foster is the teenage prostitute. Harvey Keitel plays her pimp. Cybill Shepherd plays a woman who inadvertantly helped Travis go over the edge. The director of this movie is Martin Scorsese.

It's a really good movie.

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