What are some books similar to Taxi Driver? Particularly to the part about being an isolated male who's completely alienated from society and fails to have any significant relationships with women. Extra points if it also had the dreamy atmosphere.
Also, I read A Man Asleep by Perec already.
Kevin Taylor
my diary desu
Isaac Martinez
Notes from the Underground Crime and Punishment
Brody Turner
it's literally catcher in the rye for people who can't read, only without a satisfying ending.
Matthew Bell
Raskolnikov gets qt Sonia, tho.
Adam Bailey
wait a second. it's literally catcher in the rye, without the satisfying ending.
Xavier Cooper
notes from underground is the obvious choice and actually inspired paul schrader's screenplay.
fuck off. there's no comparison. you're an idiot.
Alexander Morris
catcher in the rye is primarily about adolescence and the hypocrisy of adulthood. taxi driver is a first person study of a deeply disturbed vigilante/potential assassin and the media's lionization of him as a hero, as well as an examination of loneliness and existential malaise in an urban environment. there isn't any comparison between the two works, and the only reason you're comparing them is because they both feature "angsty" characters for lack of a better term.
taxi driver is arguably the greatest american film of the 1970s, and its ending is one of the greatest in all of cinema, although many shallow viewers misinterpret it as a "dying dream", nullifying the film's satire of the media.
Logan Reed
>...although many shallow viewers misinterpret it as a "dying dream", nullifying the film's satire of the media.
You can't blame them though. The movie goes so out of it's way to be realistic and unaffected that the last ten minutes seem like a blatant and unbelievable fantasy
Ryder Barnes
Kafka's Metamorphosis. No, not at all. One is about an edgy, self centered kid and the other is a war veteran who tries his best but is screwed over.
Lincoln Sullivan
Just all of Kafka, man. Also check out the movie After Hours for scorceses explicitly Kafkaesque take.
Nicholas Bennett
>he thinks self-hating jew biography is the same as isolated white guy biography
Brayden Gomez
I don't see it as a fantasy. The violence was shocking and lacking any polish. He was still alienated at the diner with the other taxi drivers. And he clearly does not get together with Cybil Shepperd and moreover, it is hinted he is stalking her.
Charles Martinez
My Twisted World Diary of Arthur Bremer
Daniel Morales
This. Paul Schrader has said time and again that Dostoevsky was one of his prime inspirations for the script.
Camden Harris
Not quite but almost - Libra by Delillo Oswald does have a Russian bride but they're unhappy and he abuses her.
Logan Price
>He let's antisemitism ruin literature for him
Go back to /pol/ before you hurt your fragile ego
Nicholas White
I don't know that movie, but for some reason that character is go-to avatar choice for edgemaster kiddies in youtube comments under vaguely related Veeky Forums videos, how come?
Liam Ross
>he doesn't know Taxi Driver Are you underage or just living under a rock?
Isaac Foster
Hollebeque, Whatever Ousama(?), not human(?)
Caleb Baker
Scorcese is my least favorite director desu, I don't see the appeal of any of the movies of his I watched
Dominic Evans
I don't particularly care for american cinema.
Aiden Collins
The subtext in your post is that you are a newfag.
Asher Reed
>I don't particularly care for american cinema.
Isn't there some forum on reddit you should be instead?
Charles Edwards
Sheesh, the amount of hostility just because I'm not aware of some cultural symbol for beta incels, amigos you should chill out.
Nicholas Powell
some of salinger's short stories about veterans with ptsd
Jacob Parker
My Friends by Emmanuel Bove
With the Flow - Huysmans
Owen Miller
>amigos
Brandon Bailey
The Collector
Jayden Gray
An assassin's diary by arthur bremer. its the book shrader ripped off to write the screen play. can never watch taxi driver the same way after this
Robert Russell
Travis Bickle embodies male loneliness and isolation. It's a cry for help
Liam Hill
Don't pop that bubble, user! Quick, to your safe-space!