>Sabine Haenni, a professor at Cornell University, commented on the film in her article "Geographies of Desire: Postsocial Urban Space and Historical Revision in the Films of Martin Scorsese" pg. 67: "While Taxi Driver chronicles Travis's excessive response to the perceived decline of the city, perhaps more fundamentally, the decline of the city seems to engender the decline of the male hero—Travis's inability to function in individual, collective, and heteronormative terms."
Is she right?
Yes.
no
>she
>right
probably not
Not sure and I never saw taxi driver but I recalled a docu clip where one of the key players in its creation stated somewhere along the lines its a film where you remove all the layers in a modern man (income, status, perceived value to women and fellow men).
I'm not sure I agree. The decline of the city is ultimately what allows Travis to perceive himself as a hero; the crime and decadence gives him something to focus his alienated rage against, and he transforms into a vigilante. It also gives opportunity for more traditional male heroes like Senator Palantine to rise to power as well. I don't think the city is what caused Travis's inability to function; I see it as a springboard for already existing psychological problems.
Maybe.
>to the perceived decline of the city
>perceived decline
liberalism is a mental disorder
>is she right
>she
no
>liberalism
Womens opinions dont matter, sorry pal
Like most academic criticism it's just an opinion, spaced out with verbose gibberish, that's impossible to confirm or refute.
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grow up
>anything in society
>male
>negative
every time
It's a film about a lunatic that drives a cab, falls in love with a teenage girl then kills some people.
>muh misogyny
>muh shoving politics into everything
>"grow up"
do you know how stupid you sound?
>people are actually trying to attach gender politics to this movie
this makes me wholly and unironically sad
feminist theory can be applied to basically anything
This.
Plus it's a Schrader script so you could just read one of the 10 interviews he does every month.
>Travis's excessive response to the PERCEIVED decline of the city
>Travis's inability to function in individual, collective, and heteronormative terms.
Lel, the city was in decline, you get people like Travis when you get high population density combined with degeneracy and a lack of community and belonging.
That the woman would arrogantly attribute Travis's struggle to his "perception" of the cities decline and not actually the cities decline shows you how detached the "educated" liberal arts professor is from the common man.
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she is right but you can tell she's an intersectional socialist from words like 'engender', 'postsocial' and 'heteronormative'. not to mention, her last name's Haenni; doesn't sound European to me, sounds more like a sand nigger.
>the perceived decline of the city
>the perceived decline of the city
>the perceived decline of the city
Nice, not only does the social "science" professor manage to push gender politics, she also managed to make it about diversity propaganda.
This guy gets it.
>>>/notanargument/
Interesting video, but how could the habitat be considered utopian if the mice were in the same space their entire lifespan? Also, there didn't seem to be any form of entertainment or stimuli for the mice on a day to day period. Instead it seemd like they were housed and fed only. The video stated the box could hold a population of 3k but only reached 2.2k before dropping off. Was the habitat meant to maintain a utopian feel throughout the duration of the experiment? It certainly didn't, which seemed to emphasize the decline.
It reminds me of a similar study done in the '70's with rats and their addiction to heroine yet new evidence suggested a different outcome. Here's a little video:
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I guess my question is, has the experiment presented in your link been tested today with new theories?
It's the "lol Freud penis" of its day
If you are really interested check this out my man
TRIGGER WARNING: That website might be offensive
But yes, I think that an increased population, regardless of whether you can escape it for a vacation or two every year, does reduce coherent communities, just compare small town life with the cities.
>women trying to analyze anything
Stick to your barbie dolls, sweetheart, lmao.
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Forgot the link
>But yes, I think that an increased population does reduce coherent communities
Couldn't that be attributed to the constant crashing into and social interaction, no matter how minimal, people experience on a daily basis in larger cities than in small towns?
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>feminist
>dyke haircut
>race/ethnicity
>immigrant
>urban
she's a total package, isn't she?
>degeneracy
Why do you have to use memes, it instantly invalidates your post
The correct answer is high population density and low employment/income levels. Nobody living in NYC's wealthy areas behaves the same as the poor ones despite roughly the same living spaces
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She looks like Rich Evans and Jack's baby
>low employment/income levels
That is attributing the problems to the wrong thing, you can have virtuous people living in poverty, and rich who are disgusting, just look at Hollywood.
>Why do you have to use memes
We're on Sup Forums, when in Rome
>imblying
The poor and the rich mix frequently in new york city to get fucked up and act like savages. Wall street is worse than Hollywood.
>constant crashing into and social interaction, no matter how minimal
Well that is again a problem of larger cities, in a large city you are anonymous, and most interaction with other people is not personal.
Why do professors feel the need to sound so pretentious? Fuck I miss Pauline Kael
If you weren't born there that is.
Normie rent-hike-inducing transplants get out.