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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Scorsese revisits nocturnal Manhattan through another isolated working man, with restless subjectivity, exhausted urban menace, and a compassionate but increasingly unstable moral perspective.
02
Why this pick
Its sleepless New York courier has the same solitary routines, private narration, and yearning for redemption, rendered with Paul Schrader’s cool, anguished attention to alienation.
03
Why this pick
Its formal design is far more stylised, yet it shares Taxi Driver’s fascination with ritualised self-invention, obsessive inner monologue, and the dangerous seduction of purity.
04
Why this pick
An unvarnished New York character study of corruption, guilt, and self-destruction, driven by the same willingness to stay uncomfortably close to a morally ruined protagonist.
05
Why this pick
Its surveillance specialist is less explosive than Travis Bickle but comparably isolated: a tightly controlled subjective thriller where urban sound, paranoia, and conscience steadily close in.
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01 / THE STORY
An honorably discharged United States Marine Corps soldier finds work in Manhattan driving a cab. Lonely and struggling, he has a morbid fascination and disgust with the seedy side of the city's street life and finds purpose when he saves a young prostitute and enacts vengeance on her behalf.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Travis Bickle
Betsy
Tom
'Sport' Matthew
Iris Steensma
Wizard
Personell Officer
The John
