8 Great Movies Told By Liars
7. Taxi Driver
Told from the perspective of a largely mixed up man, Taxi Driver is Martin Scorsese presenting us with a movie that doesn't have any grounding in objectivity - instead barraging us with incidental, repetitive, and nonsensical events as seen through the eyes of Travis Bickle. Utilising a narrative structure that reflects the disorientation going on in Bickle's mind, we watch as the man struggles to come to terms with life after returning from the Vietnam War, succumbing to insomnia and loneliness as he attempts to navigate New York City.
Taxi Driver is a pastiche of this muddled and mentally ill mind, with shots merging and looping amidst the driving force of Bickle trying to save the world one defiant act at a time. Bickle's narration is sparse, but it comes from journal entries that bely his state in a plain fashion. The events of Taxi Driver are all a strange exaggeration coming from a man that doesn't fit back into the society he left, which is what makes it such a fantastic movie - even if we are being lied to by someone that doesn't understand differently for the most part.
He's an unreliable narrator in its truest form.