How was he lonely in New York City?

How was he lonely in New York City?
You don't know loneliness until you've lived in a small town.

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you can be lonely anywhere

you can be lonely surrounded by people

infact that's sometimes where it feels the lonliest

Why was he lonely anyway? He hung out with fellow taxi drivers who were ready to be buds with him.

He even went on a date, but fucked it up by taking her to a porn film. He's less lonely than the average Sup Forums-poster.

The city is the loneliest place in America

>How was he lonely in New York City?

uhhh he was mentally ill and therefore alone everywhere , even in the densest city in America.

Travis Bickle is truly /r9k/ personified.

No he isn't. He's too outgoing and alpha for /r9k/.

>has a job
>doesn't live with parents
>doesn't weigh 300 pounds
>didn't end well but successfully got a date in the first place

>got cybill shepard to go out with him
>took her to see porno.

>violent
>delusional
>paranoid
>suicidal and homicidal
>tries to kill a politician because muh degeneracy

He's Sup Forums.

>says he doesn't mind giving rides to spooks

Hmmm

Not really, watch the the film again. He is clearly the stranger among the group. He doesn't have a real friendly relationship with any of them.

What makes me funny about this movie is the idea that women who watch this know at least 1 (you) person who reminds them like Travis.

Living in a small town is the opposite of being lonely, because everyone knows eachother and is very open to eachother.

Living in a city is being surrounded by individuals who would walk over your dead corpse to catch their train without even thinking about it. You nothing to them but background noise and visa versa.

THAT's true loneliness.

doesn't everyone know everyone in small towns? in cities most people are strangers who want nothing to do with one another.

its easier to feel lonely when there are people around but you dont feel connected to them

>because everyone knows eachother and is very open to eachother
Certain people know certain people and they're delusional enough to consider themselves everyone

I'm an autismo who moved to a small town. It's true, small town people are great.

I wonder if this generation's Travis Bickle will be an Sup Forums shitposter.

>tfw all i want is to connect with someone, truly connect with someone but everytime i take all the layers i put on and open to someone i act like an overwhelming autists and scare them off
I got to get organizized

I'm from a small town, but moved to a big city when I started college, and big cities are a much lonelier place
everybody is minding their own business and living their lives, it's so much harder to approach someone and find friends

It's called autism

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kys

He's right, though.
You have to go back, normalfags.

He's more like Sup Forums....

>Living in a city is being surrounded by individuals who would walk over your dead corpse to catch their train without even thinking about it. You nothing to them but background noise and visa versa.
kinda love the city for that. hate when someone comes up to me for directions,
still, would like to experience small town living for at least a couple years.

Here's what a Sup Forums thread looks like

>tfw ZERO friends

I can't believe I ended up like this. I used to have a group of 5 or 6 really close friends from about 12-22 but over the years we all seperated and went different ways. For a while I didn't want to make any new friends because I considered those people to be the best friends anyone could ever have and in a way, for me, they were. Since then though (27 now) I don't have even a single friend, only work acquaintances and that's it. Going alone and breaking into a group of pre-existing friends is fucking impossible and makes you seem like the odd man out and a weirdo. The closest thing I have to a friend now is my Mom.

At least you have her.

Same. I managed to lose all my childhood friends. They all grew up and became completely different persons, so i can't feel any connection with them anymore.

What's the problem?

You had a good, close friend group for the entirety of your teen and young adult years. Those are some of your best years, so you should consider yourself lucky, user.
I haven't been in a friend group since I was 13 and I'm now almost 20 and all alone. All I got are acquaintances which don't seem to like me very much.

I know. I am happy that I had those times and I'm very grateful that my mom is such a decent person but it makes me wonder if everyone loses their friends like this when they grow up. Neither my mom or dad, who are divorced have any friends. I try to spend time with them but my dad is a huge alcoholic and any time spent with him is spent getting drunk - which gets old for me fast and actually started me down my own path to drinking way too much and way too often. With regards to the discussion though, I grew up in a small town where everyone was friendly *as long as you lived there and grew up there*. The small town I'm living in now is the same way but since I didn't grow up there people are very standoffish. Going into a town bar here will make you feel very unwelcome. You walk into a loud bar and everything goes quiet, people stare at you and the bartender makes you feel like like an outsider.

>tfw tons of friends in hs and college
>tfw drop out of college bc of depression
>tfw your two best friends die due to DUI
>tfw the rest of your friends moved out and refuse to talk to you
>tfw been a hermit for 3 years now

if it weren't for my parents being alive i would have killed myself asap

truest answer in the thread

>but it makes me wonder if everyone loses their friends like this when they grow up

Once you get out of highschool people generally split apart.

Just the way of the world.

Not OP but I literally just finished this movie. What was his fucking problem? Why did he try to shoot the senator? He clearly hates niggers, junkies and drug dealers. Why didn't he go after them?

And you are leddit.

his mind was too boggled up to think straight

None of you plebs GET Taxi Driver

if you're a social retard you're lonely everywhere

I think he was so lonely, he just wanted to do anything that would get him noticed. After being rebuffed by the campaign lady he failed his date with, he turns his attention to the senator. It was also sort of based on the assassination attempt of George Wallace.

Watch The Man Who Sleeps

Killing the senator would've given him a purpose and outlet for his anger and violent thoughts. Plus it could be a way to get back at Cybil Shepherd (he could be seen as a sort of patriarch figure to her) and give him some feeling of control. When that failed, he went after Iris' patriarch figure as an outlet for his rage

>I think he was so lonely, he just wanted to do anything that would get him noticed.

I don't interpret it as such.

He attempts to kill Palentine because he either wanted to strike back at Betsy for turning him down or to free her from the campaign -- to maybe try and get her back, I guess.

When that failed, he turned to killing the pimps to free Jodie's character.

Him attempting to kill himself after shooting the pimps kind of shows he wasn't in it for the attention.

It's not stated, but I think killing Palantine was a way to reciprocate his rejection by Cybil Shepard.

His dislike wasn't all racist. It was toward the general trash in the city.

This is true

I was the comfiest studying in a only-male school because everyone was a robot and didn't get in touch with women at all

I was my most miserable when i went to this ultra chad university where every friday there was a giant massive party in the university with tons of alcohol and sex, everyone got laid three times a month at least (except for me because i was an engineer with no friends)

It's really miserable to see people enjoying themselves and for some unknown reason you can't (because you can't get friends or are too ugly to be part of it)

He was not lonely, you absolute fucktard.

Nowhere in the film it is implied he's lonely, it's just a Sup Forums/r9k retarded autistic interpretation of the movie, it's never said nor implied.

Did you ever try to go to any of these parties? I've had some good and bad times just going to random, giant parties where you don't know anyone.

>Nowhere in the film it is implied he's lonely,

Travis, himself, says he's lonely.

You talkin' to me?

>'God's lonely man' isn't lonely

K. It's okay, you can feel lonely too

>Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.

During the Making of, even one of the producers mentioned that Travis feels alienated.

Nice try, idiot.

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This performance by De Niro in this movie is my favorite ever

What is an allegory?

What is "him clearly being a lonely and alienated man just by watching the movie"

So he is an extraterrestrial?

fine, show me that the quote gives away taxi driver's theme of not being lonely

Have you ever lived in a large northeast city in the US? It feels exactly like this. I'm from the south, but lived in both NYC and DC for a few years. No one says hello, no excuse mes, no eye contact, people rushing to get to somewhere that they're convinced is super important, etc. And I didn't drive & walked/transit everywhere. Its fucking weird.

Its literally the only place where you can be surrounded by thousands of people & never talk to a single person all day. And people can be straight up assholes, then after a while YOU become an asshole.

Don't get me wrong, I made great friends at work (we'd go hang out, drink, hit dive bars, shows, etc), but the every day normal life took its toll on me (not to mention the fucking rents). Its for the birds desu.

I went with a group but usually we just end too drunk for our own good, some of us tried flirting with women before and after drinking and it just never went well

Usually in places where there is too much sexual liberation, the standards to get sex are much high and the competition is far more fierce, since you see so many good goods.

Right now i don't know anybody to get into those parties, and being alone sucks and it's creepy as fuck since you sometimes find careermates who recognize you but don't want to do anything with you (and can rumor about you afterwards that you were alone like a creepy mofo)

It's a shitty place, i prefer those parties where you don't know anybody, at least there you know you life won't be fucked up if you get too drunk or you signal too much failure to others

>THERES LOTS OF PEOPLE AROUND YOU SO YOU CANT BE LONELY!
>WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY IGNORE YOU? THE MOVIES SAID NYC ISNT LIKE THAT

grew up in a small town, STRONGLY considering moving back after a few years in the city

I think the character was loosely based on people like sirhansirhan (kiilled Robert Kennedy) and Lee Harvey Oswald. He was just an angry nihilist who wanted to hurt somebody. He first tries to kill a politician - which would have made him a villain , then turns his violence towards pimps and is turned into a hero by society.

Oswald first tried to kill the right wing General Walker , who was hated by the left , then failing that he assassinated JFK - hero of the left.

>university

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A glass of water

Yeah i know, being an engineer is a waste of time, i'm in my third year (but i should be in my four year), i should have went to the tech school and get some profession in like a year or two

I just received the results of the first exam of the semester and there were just two guys above C in a class of 50 guys

fuck this

>at least there you know you life won't be fucked up if you get too drunk or you signal too much failure to others

Oh shit, I know this so well. When I used to drink on the daily, I'd often wake up with a deep pit in my soul wondering what I did wrong. Even if nothing went wrong, or nobody really faulted me for it, I still felt like shit. I hardly ever drink now because of it. Even when I drink by myself I wake up feeling extremely guilty.

I got wasted at my cousin's wedding and I was supposed to make a speech. The speech I gave, which I thought was funny at time, ended up being totally inappropriate and actually sort of mean. He didn't forgive me for a long time. It didn't ruin his wedding but it made me look like a jack ass.

>rumor spread i was a rapist after eating a girl out in uni

guess i was bad at it

>tfw only really keep in touch with my small group of friends from high school (3 of us plus other members we see once a year)
>tfw talking to people in my community college classes but know I won't keep up contact with them past the semester
>tfw only people at work are middle-aged women that I see once a week
I just wish my group still lived here

That's nothing.

>smoke the big ol weed
>it's a water bong
>first time using a water bong
>take it and cough like crazy
>friend lies to me saying it's not legit
>freak the fuck out
>lay down and can't move, feel like i'm dying
>spend 10 minutes trying to unlock my phone to get my brother to pick me up
>fuck it, can't do it, use emergency call
>call cops on myself
>cops come to the party and i go to the ambulance
>turns out it really was not legit
>no one got arrested but their stash was taken away

I live in a small town which does not help my case. Because of this I can't even go out anymore without someone recognizing me. I don't know why I called the cops on myself. I probably deserve this.

>tfw only people at work are middle-aged women that I see once a week
when i was young: wow working with WOMEN all day! the dream!
>me grown up
kill me now i hate everyone at work

true but cliche. at any given moment that is a hipster singing about this feel in NYC

Are you saying the weed was laced? What would it have been laced with? Were you the only one who got that fucked up smoking it? I'm only asking because I've been so high before and paranoid that I thought something was wrong with the bud but it just turned out I was just uncomfortably high.

Everytime that happens you just need to remember that after some hours you will be back normal

I enjoy some weird highs from time to time, it feels strong but you just remind yourself that all will be fine after that and it's like just seeing a movie

It was laced with GHB (date rape drug). Everyone is a regular smoker and I wasn't so my tolerance was low.

I don't mind them so much myself but I literally have nothing in common with any of them so I only talk about work-related shit at work.

>tfw people in my tv class at college keep telling me Bill Nye's new show is fantastic while I try to hold back showing them that awful clip we all know about

actually people feel loneliest/ most unhappy in big cities

its in small rural towns that everyone knows everyone and there is a sense of community

almost city dewllers are either rude, cold, detached or in their own bubble all the time. You also get very superficial people.

>t. normalscum faggot
go back to facebook retard

i fucking hate normies

I didn't think GHB could be smoked. I've used it only a handful of times. I'm not saying you're lying but it's just I've heard tons of stories of people smoking "laced" weed and 99% of the times it turns out untrue and that they were just way higher than they've ever been.

The drug test they did in the hospital says otherwise.

He just wanted to make himself noticed and didn't care how he did it. His first thought was to kill Palentine because he was a prominent figure and it would have got him the most attention, however he pussied out because the secret service guys were eyeing him up and he lost his nerve. So he then went and dealt with the second-most prominent thing that was on his mind instead. The point of the ending is that he was considered a hero for taking out a den of scum, when in reality he was only one shifty look away from doing something considered to be evil. However his motives were the same for both things he could have done. It's a really simple ending and it's shocking how much people miss the point of this.

nobody is going to fucking 'lace' weed you underage retard. no drug dealer is going to waste drugs (aka MONEY) lacing their pot to sell to you for free. laced weed is a fucking meme.

protip they fake a lot of those to scare kids into not smoking pot, loser.

So the bottle they had laying out on the corner of their bed stand was fake. Good to know.

yea it was fake you weak minded cunt

GHB is used orally and could have been added into any drink you had.
Why did you quote me? I was the one saying the story sounded suspicious.

Nah. No need to curse, user.