Black Elements in Taxi Driver
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
--Thomas Wolfe, "God's Lonely Man"
"Loneliness has followed me all my life. The life of loneliness pursues me wherever I go: in bars, cars, coffee shops, theaters, stores, sidewalks. There is no escape. I am god's lonely man."(Travis Bickle, "Taxi Driver") These sad words keep echoing in my mind every time I finish watching this film. I am not sure whether it is exactly these wor…