Anyone with half a brain would have ended the movie with Travis dead on the couch with his head cocked to the side, Scorcese doesn’t know how to end a movie to save his life.
shareWhy was that particular ending necessary?? The ending was supposed to represent vigilante justice and Travis redeeming and reassuring himself as a person by carrying out that vigilant act. I guess you just didn't get it.
sharePlus he has the exact same haircut and length before he shaved it. He actually grew EACH hair strand at the exact length from the year before......Amazing...
shareWell, technically, it could've ended like that. But I think the moral to the story was that with Travis carrying out that act of vigilante justice, is what actually made him overcome a seriously dark, uncertain, and lonely period of his life. The incident allowed him to move on from his own inner-darkness, anger, and frustration. It was a sense of release that improved his overall life. If that makes sense.
But then again, I have a weird and what some might call a dumb theory about the end of the film. Maybe Travis did actually die and everything at the end was like a dream. The way Travis wished it would've ended. Cause the ending did have a dream-like atmosphere to it.
It's dramatic irony that he's perceived as he is after the act.
And it's made clear that he didn't move on from his own inner-darkness.
The incident allowed him to move on from his own inner-darkness, anger, and frustration. It was a sense of release that improved his overall life. If that makes sense.
Bingo.
shareAgreed 100% about the ending. It completely ruins a movie that was filled with biting satire and social commentary, and feels completely tacked on, like audiences at the original screening didn't like how nihilistic the movie ended.
It's very clear judging by the first two acts, Bickle's actions weren't supposed to be celebrated or rewarded. He was supposed to be portrayed as a racial paranoid asshole who glamorizes vigilantism and thought he was going to ride out a hero killing dangerous black men and rescuing a damsel in distress. Instead, he gets shot up by a bunch of white guys, the girl cries her eyes out and the cops are there to arrest him.
You don’t think there’s biting satire and social commentary in having society lionise a madman who went on a killing spree?
hhhaha. man i agree-
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