The Story

That You Should See

In one of the more memorable scenes of the film, his next fare-paying passenger is a scary-acting, mustached, middle-aged individual (director Scorsese himself in a cameo role) who insists that Travis pull over to the curb, keep the meter running, and just sit. The man is the agonized husband of a cheating wife who watches her scantily-clad silhouette in the lit second-story window of another man's apartment. As Travis sits expressionless, his lunatic passenger (who speaks repetitively in circles) describes his homicidal plan. The demented passenger aggressively prods Travis to answer his questions during his fantasy of murdering his adulterous wife and her black partner with a .44 Magnum.