... of the lowest classes of the American urban society in which is inserted the central character of the movie, the troubled and desperately lonely Travis Bickle, a twenty-six year old Vietnam war veteran,who seems to be heavily psychologically battle-scarred (his psychological profile approximates those of the fight-zone combatants which are characterized by insomnia, troubles of the behavior, and ... as a society built on immigration and rebellion against aristocratic forms of government, have always revindicated their classless nature and by extend the possibility for anyone to succeed, ...

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... Taxi Driver, therefore containing certain characteristics of the Western genre. To prove my thesis, I will show the similarities that both films share by analyzing the characters, themes and the socio-historical background of the two movies. First of all, when analyzing Travis Bickle and Ethan Edwards, you can see that they are both very similar. Both are war veterans from the defeated ... also a time of movement rights and fights for racial desegregation with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Similarly in the 70's it was a resurgence of movement rights in reaction to the Vietnam War. A...

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