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"The Other" And "Taxi Driver": A Comparison - College Essays

"The Other" And "Taxi Driver": A Comparison

"The Other" is a theme, motif or figure which seems to appear over
and over in the movie. It could be nature, women, other races, other
cultures, homosexuals, criminals, rulers, Gods, monsters, etc. In the film,
the protagonist becomes just like "The Other" in order to resolve the
problem. Usually, "The Other" is killed by the protagonist at the end of
the movie. "The Other" is always the victim in the movie, it is a
scapegoat: it is the focus of the resolution of the problems. In "Taxi
Driver", "The Other", according to me, is two elements: women an criminals
(gangsters). In the beginning of the film, the protagonist, Travis Bickle
falls in love with a woman who works for Palantine as a ...

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still has an identity
forming problem, or I might say that he has unconsciously formed an
identity during his childhood, but he's trying to find it. It was his
curiosity about his identity that was giving him problems to sleep.
Basically, his identity should be formed based on his father's identity,
but nothing is obvious. Whoever his (Travis) model was, planted the
confidence in Travis to form his identity. For example, if our parents
don't tell us in early our childhood about a certain quality that we have,
we might have an identity crisis in our adult lives. In this film, we have
a good example of "identity and rivalry". After Travis based his identity
upon his model, he started a competition with his model, he tried to do
something that his model wouldn't have done: he went out there and killed
the gang members.

In "Taxi Driver", we get introduced to two types of women: "the
good girl" and "the bad girls". Both of them are introduced in the
beginning of the movie, ...

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