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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I don't think it's a film that hits you immediately. It certainly took a few watches before it really sank in for me. It is very slow paced and much of its iconic status really only refers to the final quarter of the movie. I love it more and more but it almost had to stop being 'Taxi Driver' before I could really appreciate it. Take away the post-Mohican stuff and it's arguably one of his gentlest films.
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Interestingly I clicked with this movie in one watch, and actually have only seen it twice yet vividly recall its details and underlying symbolic critique of society as a whole. Its a brilliant film whose genius gets lost if we get caught up in anachronism viewing it through a contemporary lens. We need to transport ourselves back to the time when it was one of the first truly gritty and honest reflections on the darkerside of urban life. It was almost like a film noir revision of some kind of turn of the 20th century muckraker pamphlet