Why did he take her to a porno?

Why did he take her to a porno?

He was an autist

Literal autism

I thought he hated porno and sleaze.

What does she look like these days?

I know women of her type tend to age the worst.

>implying it's any worse than capeshit

It was a weird porno too, which microscopic images of sperm swimming around and shit. Pretty fucked up stuff.

It was a different time

>of her type
So, White?

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JUST

All porn was like that in the 70s. Behind the Green Door has a 10 minute looping cumshot

There was a brief period of time when hardcore porno movies were seriously discussed and appreciated among film buffs.

Did they have BLACKED threads too?

>looping cumshot
I don't understand why this isn't a more common practice today. Just like how they replay one explosion in a movie from different angles and different speeds for dramatic effect, it would be much better kinomaking to loop the cumshot from different angles and in slo-mo and stuff.

DeNiro doesn't look any better though, they're old people

Travis is a psycho, looking for something to trigger him into violence. He wants to be violent, but he also has a weird set of rules that he feels he needs to follow in order to paint himself as the good guy in his own mind.

Through the movie he rubs his face in degeneracy to keep his sense of rage pointing outwards. He drives through bad neighborhoods. He works multiple shifts at night, so he sees the worst of NYC during the period that it was a total shithole.

The girl is working for a politician who's running to clean up the city. She's white-bred and happy and cultured and lives in ignorance of his world. So he wants rub her face in the shit he experiences.

But again, it's all a ruse. He just wants to be triggered into violence. Many mass murderers and spree killers go on their rampage after a relationship breakdown.

After this scene and the follow up where he freaks out in the campaign office, he decides he's going to assassinate his GF's candidate, but he screws that up and has to bail. So he goes back to obsessing over the little prostitute girl instead. And that situation successfully triggers his psychopathic rage fantasy.

At times during the movie he appeals to other characters that he's going to do something bad. So he knows what he's doing on one level, but is completely oblivious on others.

Him wanting to be violent is like a normal person really needing to take a shit. The cramps may pass momentarily, but they'll return sooner or later, and be much worse. And you'll feel like crap until you finally purge.

Good post.

He was trying bring her down to his level. It's a catholic thing or something.

His hatred of everything corrupt in NYC was pretty standard projection of the things he disliked about himself.

Also he was an autist

This was back in the 70's. Films like Deep Throat, etc.

And also this his post is better than mine desu

Porno is the patrician choice.
There is no ulterior motive to the movie, it's a perfect representation of carnal pleasure juxtaposed with the viewers uneventful life. It's more than a "porno", it's a window to a world not like ours, it's an alien world where hedonism reigns and people are reduced to their most primitive form.
How could anyone turn away from such a sight?
When taking a girl to a date, a porno flick is without a doubt the best option go with.
It sets the tone for the rest of the day, sex. The movie acts as a foreplay, they both get aroused and after that.. Woohoo, if you catch my drift.

He has no idea what's normal

He though it was normal

based Krager

He was to pure for this world

If she's not married to a nigger with a bunch of nigger children that look literally nothing like her I'd almost say Cybil is looking better. Also Deniro is a fucking has been hack cuckold. But yeah... Cybil... hahahaha fucking WOOF

based

Can you explain the ending? Does it simply mean that Travis is still fucked up and that outburst didnt change anything, and he is again looking something new to get triggered of?

He worked long shifts because he was insomniac and a war veteran. He genuinely liked her, but was clueless autist

Almost a good post but your shit analogy is pretty shit. It's more like a no-fapper trying to avoid porno for ethical reasons, so he quits checking out redtube and whatnot but he still clicks around on Sup Forums and oops I clicked on that webm with the buxom woman with a wet t-shirt and hey what's that gif, I bet it's relevant to the discussion... yes yes...

>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.
>All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
>The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.

Cybill was so fucking pretty.

What this isn't normal?

yes

Literally copied from reddit.

Yeah, he failed to die at the end of his big trigger event. You see that he runs out of bullets and the gangsters didn't get a kill shot in. So he uses his finger instead to mimic a suicide.

If he'd gone after the politician, the security guys would have blown him away. But they caught on too soon, ruining his fantasy.

You see it with the majority of these types. The violence inside them is caused largely by some form of self hatred, and extreme unhappiness.

I think it's said at the beginning that he was in Vietnam. So it's possible something happened there that he can't live with. Or, even worse, that he liked killing people in Vietnam, and wasn't allowed to do it anymore once he got home.

Wow that's a high quality photo.

I didn't know they had digital cameras in the 60s.

Not nearly as bad as I expected.

He watched a lot of porno movies due to his loneliness. He perceived that it's [watching porno] what people do romantically, i.e. on a date.

Not him but i always interpreted it as him growing and getting past what he was.His interaction with Betsy was normal and the fact that he is talking to her through the mirror in his car has some symbolic reference to his past being behind. We he adjusts the mirror though with the little glitch it leaves some more question marks to the directors intentions.

What caused his violent outburst will always remain in the background but has the ability to resurface.

Travis is driven further and further into insanity as the film goes on by the torment of his own loneliness and the degeneracy and shit he sees every day in the ABSOLUTE FUCKING SHITHOLE TERRIBLE FUCKING RAT NEST that is New York of that era. He's a war veteran who cannot relate to other people. He's also racist against niggers as he rightfully should and would be, and Sport was originally meant to be black but they were afraid it would start race riots or something (which it probably would have).

Anyway the screenwriter has explicitly said it's about isolation and what it does to you, speaking from his personal experience, something Scorsese openly stated to have related to (though surely less so from their statements).

I know this because I am literally Travis Bickle.

The way he adjusts the mirror with the little glitch leaves some more question marks to the directors intentions. ** corrections

Why was NY such a shithole back then? What led to it? And what made it change?

Writer and Director both said that he was based on spree killers. They added some personal stuff, including that they were both fucked up on drugs and hated women at the time, due to relationship failures.

Scorsese is the guy in the back of the cab talking about shooting a woman in the pussy with a Dirty Harry-style magnum.

1. niggers 2. niggers 3. republican mayor
unfortunately the city is turning down the wrong path again

This. In the 70s, porn movies were almost mainstream for a while. They were sort of seen the same way as arthouse and foreign films were (as a valid, but specialist niche), and it was seen as somewhat trendy to go see them. This was also embraced by the growth of the "sex is cool" movement of the same time that resulted in swinger parties and The Joy of Sex.

Going to porn screenings was something that some couples actually did. Travis had probably heard about that and was too much of an autist to realize it wasn't something for a first date because he doesn't understand how relationships work.

Reply to my b8 pls

Cut, Paste, Search.

Let me know if you find a match. The weirdness level would make it worth going and grabbing a lottery ticket.

Giuliani gets credit but I think it was as much Roe v Wade and regulations on lead put into place ~20 years prior as anything he did. The new generation of scum in many cases wasn't born and in others was at least less retarded than their predecessors. Also, it was a shithole before blacks got there. Not saying they didn't play a role though

Most girls aren't straightforward like that sadly. Unless you're dating her in a sexshop it's not going to work.

Reminds me of one of the interviews I watched with Thomas Sowell where he also said something about how abortion and crime rates 20 years later were correlated, I think, though I think the example he put forward it was the other way around i.e. more abortions meant less crime 20 years later.

There's also plenty of evidence that says switching to unleaded gas had a huge impact on crime rates.

>Going to porn screenings was something that some couples actually did.
my grandparents for example. grandfather passed away last year but grandmother is still alive. they never made a secret of it. apparently they did it every friday night for a while.

Lot of good posts on Sup Forums for once.

Blacks have been in NY since forever. There were riots between blacks and the Irish in the 19th century, iirc.

But, yes, abortion also helped with not birthing potential criminals which helped Guiliani's reforms.

Do you guys rate Tax Driver as Scorsese's best? It, Casino, and Goodfellas are my favorites of his. Some of my favorite films.

I've seen Goodfellas but not Casino, and between Goodfellas and Taxi Driver I like TD more.

Casino gets some shit around here for being pretty long. But I love the setting and theme, and De Niro and Pesci are great together as usual. Definitely recommended.

the guy worked in the shit hole of NY. he saw couples going to pornos.

he had no idea the affect it would have on her.

again he is sorta nuts and in a shitty part in life. Perhaps he also thought. "oh she'll like this like how I see other women like their man that they go into this movie to see. "

Because porn theaters were everywhere at the time, and most of the time they just showed softcore shit with plotlines and everything.
You've got to understand. New York City was a fucking cesspool until the mid-80s or so. The smell there is indicative of the city's real nature.

>Sport was originally meant to be black but they were afraid it would start race riots or something
You don't think there were kike pimps? There were kike pimps.

>more abortions = less crime
That's what I meant user

Fucking hell, Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver is the most beautiful woman in history.

Deniro cant even get a white woman hahaha

>New York City was a fucking cesspool until the mid-80s or so.

NYC was an apocalyptic nightmare until well into the 90s, when Giuliani became mayor and went hard in the paint.