r/TaxiDriver

After Travis kills Sport, and the Mafioso guy along with The Timekeeper and saves Iris, why does he try to shoot himself?

Was he afraid of going to prison? Also did Iris even recognize him at all or act grateful afterwards? She must have been traumatized.

It would have been interesting to see Travis not get hurt at all and try to get Iris to leave with him before the police showed up, he seemed to realize that he was going to jail or getting killed at worse but he went to the hospital and wasn't even arrested, he just have a good lawyer.

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They never bring it up but when Travis Bickle has Charles Palantine as his passenger and talks to him and his aides about what bothers him most he just rambles and says that whoever is President should clean up the city and flush it right down the f*cking toilet.

He seems insane here and doesn't understand that Charles Palantine will view him as being crazy, Palantine basically gives him a cheap stock answer and says that he knows what he means and that they are going to have to make some radical changes, shakes hands with Travis, tips him and leaves visibly shaking himself off.

Just imagine meeting any political candidates or famous person even like Donald Trump before he was President and saying the same thing, not a good day, Travis really didn't prove anything except that he was crazy here.

Does Charlie T Travis Bickle Killer when he says "Bye Killer" and makes the gun symbol right as Travis goes outside to talk to Wizard because he knows that Travis was a Marine veteran and they are killers by design and training or was it because he had killed the junkie in Harlem already and Melio told Charlie T since he might live in or near Harlem?

Charlie T knowing this detail is weird since it happens later unless the shooting happened earlier and was edited in the wrong place later on, kind of like how Travis has that stupid brush cut haircut but his hair is magically longer again unless it is done to show weeks passing and it's over weeks but probably edited poorly, the junkie getting shot is supposed to happen before Travis and Wizard talk yet if happens afterwards, editor sucked at his job.

Travis became a hero by killing those guys who were exploiting Iris, what happens if he actually killed Charles Palantine or attempted to do so and missed?

What would his life be like then?