Just watched this for the first time.>guy wants to be a hero and clean the streets of filth>kills some black thug>kills some pedophiles>saves a little girl>gets treated like a hero>foid who rejected him in the beginning falls in love with him when she learns he killed multiple peopleWhy is this supposed to be a toxic example of masculinity again?
btw everyone in this movie is supposed to be black
>>215517834What does that mean?
>>215517864I only know that keitels character was supposed to be black.
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>Why is this supposed to be a toxic example of masculinity again?This has to be bait.The entire film is a character study of a deeply alienated, mentally unstable man whose desire for human connection is warped by his inability to function in society. His heroic actions are the desperate, violent outburst of a complete psychotic, not a calculated moral crusade. The ending is intentionally ambiguous to highlight how society often misinterprets and celebrates violence when it aligns with a convenient narrative.You didn't understand the film. You consumed the plot points. There's a difference.
>>215517834I can't confirm this but I think it was the same case for the one whigger in collateral that got shot by tom cruise in the alley with his friend was written to be black but then they changed it last minute.
>>215517920>His heroic actions are the desperate, violent outburst of a complete psychotic, not a calculated moral crusadeWay to miss the point in favor of your own preconceived prejudice.
>>215517764When they showed it on TV in the 80s many stations ran a text explanation of the ending. The movie was also so heavily edited it was hard to follow the ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hEtSTY6mOw
>>215517984>Don't get any ideas goyhahahahahaha
>>215517920Chatgpt voice
>>215517984>t.the filmakerswelp there you have it
>>215517764>takes his gf to a porn theatrewhy?
>>215517920>he isn't a hero because he's a little awkward
>>215518031The meta-point for the audience's sake is to illustrate that he's completely ignorant of social norms. Even the most autistic viewer can understand what's wrong with it, but at the same time would be able to relate with the concept of unwittingly making a social faux pas.
His one mistake was not killing the senator golem, but to be fair it was a difficult task.
>>215518031>>215518081Why did she freak out about it?
>>215518103he assumed too much about her. when youre getting to know a decent woman you dont try to force sex or sexual showings on her like that
>>215517984>"oy vey! Do not go shooting up any rich pedophiles and politicians now!"
>>215517764“Skunk Pussies” always gets me. Love that quote.
>>215518132Yeah, but why did she freak out immediately once the sex started, and then decide to completely break contact with Travis when she seemed to be extremely into him before? Dude literally just made a small mistake.
>>215518198Cause she realized he's a dumb autist and not the confident chad he came off like when they met.
>>215518198Sometimes an innocuous thing someone says or does is an indicator that there is a much, much larger issue behind it.
>>215518198taking a girl on first date to watch a porn movie is not very romantic is it, plus he didn't even realize why which made things even more awkward.
>>215518640>>215518682>>215518798And then she starts liking him again at the end when he is labeled a hero, women are a meme.
>>215518909Well yeah cause he proved he has a moral backbone and that he's brave.
>>215517864They race swapped the pimp because they realized that Travis would only be killing blacks including the liquor store robber.
>>215517981He ping ponged back and forth between violent plans including a political assassination just to get attention.
>>215517764The movie was a perfect depiction of New York in the 70s and how much of a shithole it was.
>>215518103The unlimited access to porn at ones fingertips in the privacy of their home basically killed porn theaters, and that's a good thing. These were places where the most perverted degenerates gathered to watch smut and in some places even cp. The mob sometimes operated those places and had prostitutes of all kinds solicit you for sex.
>>215517981>Way to miss the point in favor of your own preconceived prejudice.how is this not way OP is doing?
>>215517764no chuddie, you're not supposed to identify with the racist misanthrope because... uh... YOU'RE JUST NOT SUPPOSED TO, OKAY!?
>>215519251Was Travis racist? He looks weird at blacks at multiple points in the film, but there's a black dude in his group of friends.
>>215517764>foid who rejected him in the beginning falls in love with him when she learns he killed multiple peopleI dont remember this part
>>215517984Reminds me of the disclaimer about The Godfather not being representative of Italians.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO4GyYyK7K0
>>215519365No, and the bodega owner was clearly Hispanic and he seemed to be on good terms with him.
>>215519105Him attempting to kill the candidate was the one morally dubious thing he does, it's like the filmmakers couldn't decide if he was supposed to be good or not
>>215517764One of the thing that most viewer forgot is that the MC is supposed to be a guy who came back from Vietnam traumatized. They constantly compare this guy to average doomers who feel bored or incels but forget this specific point, thought the movie don't use mention it a lot but it probably play in the MC's issues for getting jobs and seeing how shit the life actually is.
>>215519579It explains why he doesn't know how to act around women, since he spent so much time only around men.
I love taxi driver threads
>>215517764because White men killing black thugs and pedophiles to save White girls is exactly what (((they))) don't want you to do. This is why, when done, those men will be utterly crucified where as blacks who murder White women and children are always found incompetent to stand trial and treated as victims.
>>215517864The pimp and also the people in the last shoot out were all black in the script. The movie would've been even better that way.
>>215517920ywnbaw
>>215519661Pedowood was woke even back then, just to a much, much less extreme degree. Same reason every violent rape gang you see is always southern hillbillies or maybe hispanics, even though male negros commit more rapes than anyone else in the United States by like 10 to 1
>>215519678/pol/tranny cope
>>215517920How castrated do you have to be as a male to post an anime pic as your talking head
>>215517920Shut up and keep twerking hoe
>>215517764You didnt watch it
>Why is this supposed to be a toxic example of masculinity again?It wasn't originally
>>215517920this post reeks of reddit
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>>215519653Ask 10 people who Kyle Rittenhouse isAsk 10 people who darrell brooks isLearn a lot
>>215517834Even the cook?
>>215518198Going to a pornographic theater is freakshit behavior in general. Bringing a date to one, particularly without any forewarning, speaks of complete social ignorance and/or genuine potentially dangerous mental instability. Not a “small mistake.”
>>215517920They'll hate you because you speak the truth.
>>215517920Is everyone replying to this just casually forgetting he didn't even really give a shit about the girl and only fell back on taking out the pimp and gangsters because his original plan of killing a completely random Senator his would-be gf worked for got foiled? It's not even necessarily a murder planned in for some righteous idealism, he purely arbitrarily hyperfocused on killing Palantine and going out in a blaze of glory just because his face happened to be associated with a moment the guy would've never known about or understood. What Travis did was good for a society that had no idea what his Plan A was but he's inevitably going to blow up again and it's likely the next target he sets his sights on won't have a secret service detail.
>>215518049He gives me the creeps! Yikes!
People seem to forget that he was fully intending to murder an innocent senator before he got caught by the glowies and ran off. His "heroic" slaughter at the end of the film was just him getting his sick murderous intent out on people who just happened to deserve it. Travis was not someone men should aspire to be like.
>>215525570this also reeks of chatgpt but yes the fact that Travis killed the pimps instead of the politician and was regarded as a hero instead of a crazy vigilante just confirms the warped view of society that Travis has.
>>215517764First target was a political assassination and he only rerouted to the pedos when he thought it would be too hard and the pedos were available.He just wanted to kill people but because he incidentally wound up with the right target the people around him thought that he was principled.
>>215519688normgroid cope
>>215525638again, he did something good, BUT, he was a downtrodden man so it "doesn't count", apparently.
>>215525953He HAPPENED TO do something good, he was largely acting on self interest. He was a misguided misanthrope that got lucky.
>>215526057This is how people like travis happen to begin with, just utter fucking rejection for no reason other than being who and what they are. You retards treat any other guy like this for no reason other than thinking you somehow deserve perfect superheroes and if any guy who wants to do good isn't a perfect ideal then he's just a filthy creep who should be attacked for daring to do anything
