>>16020331Even if he did manage to make the streets a better place by the end of it all, he himself would not have a spot there. Remember that amongst all of this, he's also a Vietnam veteran. There's absolutely zero chance of Travis being able to settle in today's society and be considered normal, and I guess it shows in the movie how outed he is. So, basically, he's just stuck in his own little world of completely blind justice and righteousness, and nobody cares to save him from it. How far it'll take him is anybody's guess and left up to the viewers imagination, because again, at the end of the movie it's shown that he's going to repeat it all over again. I guess there's nothing else for me to say, you can the rest of the thoughts by yourself. He's just not a fit for the world that he was in. As a product of his environment, his inherent good is turned into what you see. In another life, Travis would've been a happy little fisherman, but he got stuck with the hell that he was in, and made to believe that it's all okay in there.
Anyhow. I guess that's that. But one last thing. I just find it really funny how people consider Travis as a "he's literally me" character.
Because no, he just isn't. He's as far from you as possible. I suppose that the people who think so just don't actually know the character beyond that he's a social outcast and on the weird side, and people obviously like to pretend that they themselves are as much of an individual, that's normal.
It's not lost on me that people most of the time say things like that in an ironic way, but there still are ones who genuinely think that way, and it's just retarded.
And I suppose that's all I can say about the movie. I mean, again, I haven't seen it in over half a decade. I usually don't remember movies one bit, so, it just says enough if it was good enough to actually leave an impression on me. Plus the sax theme is just really, really good.
You take the wheel. What did you think about it?
