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Posted: October 10th, 2016, 6:35am Report to Moderator
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For anyone that has watched Taxi Driver I want your opinion.

Why did Travis want to kill the senator?

Here are my theories:

Because he was jealous that Betsy spent so much time surrounding herself with everything to do with the Senator.

Because he blamed the Senator for not doing anything about the "flith" that flooded the city.

Or am I missing something?


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Posted: October 10th, 2016, 12:20pm Report to Moderator
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He's a psychopath, so it's open to interpretation.


Politically it's because Palatine is a Liberal sort...he has a lot of black people and women working for him. So Travis blames him for being soft.

Because he's jealous of his ability to be comfortable round women, and he's jealous specifically over Betsy.

From Quora:

Screenwriter Paul Schrader certainly encourages a sexual/psychological reading of Travis Bickle's motives in trying to assassinate Palantine:

[Bickle wants to kill Palantine] Because Palantine represents a man who is at ease. . . He hates men who are relaxed with women. Because they are the one thing he cannot be. So it doesn’t have anything to do with politics, it has to do with sexuality.



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Shit.. I thought I replied to this... Sorry mate.

But yeah, I have read what people have said on Quora and pretty much agree with all of them.

I was just wondering what others opinions were.

Cheers for your input
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