Punk Saves The Day

Versus Killer #32. A new Versus Killer is upon us. That man is Travis in "Taxi Driver". He didn't start out in the beginning of the movie killing but he may very well have had to in Vietnam. The mentally unstable vet wallows in loneliness and despair, feeling detached from the busy bustle of the city life he's surrounded by. The atrocities he witnessed in the war give him a different view of life. One that separates him from the very society he's wanting to be a part of. He grows a sort of distaste and disgust for the ugly side of mankind and becomes unhinged. He thinks about killing someone that encroaches on our civil rights in a political office. The more frayed he becomes the more he grows anti-social. That's about when he cuts his hair into a mohawk. You get the sense that he doesn't have anyone in life to relate to or talk to. He sets out to save a young adolescent from the clutches of a pimp and the group that house her. So in his own way he makes progress from going after a politician to going after a group of mobsters, even though killing won't give him a good ending. He really doesn't care for a good ending and it seems finalistic, like as if he's fed up with everything and wants to just get away from it all, even if that means a prison cell. We can relate to the punk and feel sorry for the man. This isn't a movie review but I kinda did divulge the whole plot in a nutshell. He wasn't cut out for war as most soldiers aren't. At least he was a hero.
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Guest Commentator HARVESTER OF SORROW says: "I told him to do it. I'm a busy man ya know, getting people to clean up the streets!"