The Last Temptation of Travis Bickle
[...]a narrow-minded perception does not take into account Scorsese’s elaborate staging of Travis’ character flaws and questionable behavior. [...]the positive reviews of the film were more subtle in their appreciations and saw in the ending a political or social metaphor. Precisely when the water h...
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| Published in: | Offscreen 1997-09, Vol.1 (6) |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | [...]a narrow-minded perception does not take into account Scorsese’s elaborate staging of Travis’ character flaws and questionable behavior. [...]the positive reviews of the film were more subtle in their appreciations and saw in the ending a political or social metaphor. Precisely when the water hits Jesus, the sounds come back. [...]the reality of the physical world has been modified by his divine presence. Early in his career, many preconceived ideas on the life of Christ were put into perspective by the novel The Last Temptation in which he found a well defined structure to organize his thinking, while by the same token it tested his faith. [...]Taxi Driver ‘s ending cannot be fully understood unless it is enlightened by the knowledge put forward by Scorsese’s screen adaptation of Kazantzakis’ creation. [...]something crucial was missing from our analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 1712-9559 |