"He's a profit and a pusher.
Partly truth partly fiction.
A walking contradiction." - Kris Kirstofferson

In Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle repeatedly expresses two ideas that are central to the film. First, Travis has an undying wish to purify the world. He wants to rid his city of all the evil and scum that currently inhabits the city's cold and damp streets. Second, is the method by which Travis tries to obtain his goals. Travis Bickle tries to clean up his city by methods similar to those of religious figures. He even takes on a role as a savior figure. Travis Bickle's quest to save the world via religious ideas fails, and instead results is a bloodbath.

The first place where we are introduced to the theme of scum inhabiting New Youk is in the very first frame of the film. Here, we see nothing more...