Is Travis dead or alive at the end of Taxi Driver?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The ending of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver is widely believed to take place in Travis Bickle’s imagination in his dying moments, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect the filmmakers’ intentions. Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro as Travis, a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD and insomnia.
At the end of the shootout, a blood-drenched Travis collapses onto a couch and stops moving as police officers swarm the building. What follows seems a little too good to be true. Travis isn’t prosecuted for killing all those people; he’s lauded as a hero. A series of newspaper clippings pinned up on the wall of his apartment show that he’s become a local celebrity, and a letter from Iris’ parents thanks him for saving her.
Why Travis Bickle Might Still Be Dead At The End Of Taxi Driver While Schrader didn’t write the ending of Taxi Driver with Travis’ death in mind, he does concede that this reading is “a legitimate interpretation” of the ending. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Travis doesn’t survive the movie. For starters, the happy ending seems at odds with the gritty, grisly, cynical tone of the rest of the film.
The camera seems to support the death theory. When Travis falls down on the couch after his gun-toting frenzy, the camera rises up above him as if to represent his soul leaving his body. When Betsy is sitting in the back of Travis’ cab, just before Scorsese goes into the end credits, Travis does a disturbed double-take in his rearview mirror, as if he’s being greeted by Satan upon arrival in Hell.
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