Why did he go to the political rally and why did he pretend to be interested in the secret service?
Why did he go to the political rally and why did he pretend to be interested in the secret service?
Why did he go to the political rally and why did he pretend to be interested in the secret service?
>I didn't watch the movie because I was busy scrolling on my phone
>now explain this part to me
I never opened my phone during the movie. I dont need everything to explicit, I can understand everything to do with Iris, as an example, but the stuff with the secret service and the political candidate never get brought up again
How did you not understand the movie? He wanted to be seen as a hero like back when he was in the war, but after he came back veterans were just discarded.
He was going to assassinate the politician because he viewed him as a bad guy. When that failed he went for the saving Iris angle of becoming a hero.
NTA but it was never about being seen as a hero for Travis imo.
I think it's made very clear that's all it was about to him
He didn't want to do good deeds, he wanted to be a famous hero
>I think it's made very clear that's all it was about to him
Doesn't mean he wants to be a hero. Travis himself says, "I got some bad ideas in my head." He knows the things he's considering aren't consider noble, honourable or heroic. But he's a man who feels pushed aside and alienated with no place in society. He wants to lash out and be heard, even if he becomes a villain. The irony is that by lashing out and unleashing his anger against one group of people he becomes a hero but had his original plan not been foiled he would've been a villain.
>How did you not understand the movie?
>the rest of that post
It was a misdirection. He drastically changed his look and deliberately gave the Secret Service a bunch of false info.
>why did he pretend to be interested in the secret service?
That was Henry Krinkle in that scene not Travis
he was being cool and mysterious. chicks love that
but Betsy wasnt around, she was avoiding him after he took her to see a dirt flick in the cinema, remember that whole part? Why act cool to impress a girl if she isnt going to know about you doing that
She was there moron helping setup. The camera even zooms in on her after Travis claps like a goon.
He was just fricking w the agent.
But she wasnt next to him when he was talking to the agent. So I his plan was just to shoot the politician in when she was around and he gave up on that after a guard thought he was suspicious and he never tried again. why
He was stalking her.
I think you need to have asperger's/generic social moron syndrome to understand it
It's the same as Elliot Rodger giving up on shooting up the sorority house because the door was locked. He obviously could have just shot his way in or broken down the door but for people in that mental state even minor inconveniences can have a serious effect on their ability to carry out their plans
On a much less harmful level, a lot of people like that will completely derail their whole day's schedule because one tiny thing didn't go as planned because the anxiety from it triggers their assburgers
Elliot didn't have the strength to break down a door even if he tried. He was weak.
Not that I want him to succeed but why not knock on the door and pretend you're a pizza man? Or just wait until someone opens the door? He waited all day for his roommates to stab them, why couldn't he wait in the bushes for someone to leave the house or approach then open the door?
Well, he has no pizzas.
And he was a midwit. Or worse than that.
>Well, he has no pizzas.
Well, buy one. Though he doesn't even need them all he needs is someone to open the door and unless they have a security camera they'll open the door to a pizza. If they do then don't bother with it and just say you're there for Stacy, you were supposed to call but lost her number.
Why do people seethe so hard at Travis and people that relate to him?
>has a good stable job he works hard at
>isn't corrupt
>maybe a little weird but who isn't
>protects little girls
>destroyed an underage brothel
I really can't fathom why people say it's bad to idolise him or relate to him
he's violent and once a girl stood him up he wanted to kill the politican she was supporting. It's not something to look up to. But only those parts, everything else about him is fine
Well jeez we all make mistakes
Basically he the kind of sexless loser who'd feel at home on /misc/ today.
That's not the reason he wanted to kill Palantine you fricking moron
What's the reason?
Because homosexuals like evil eye say he’s le EVIL
>you talkin to me?
>cause i don't mind if i do!
Somethin somethin, he was a ticking time bomb who wanted to kill a politician because the woman who stood him up worked for that campaign.
I guess they argue he's just violent and wanted any opportunity to act on it, and saw an opportunity to do so under the guise of altruistic motives. But killing a few random scumbags in one massive city doesn't change the world.
He was the wrong guy but happened to be in the right place
succinct and correct
Because the lonely young, white man is society's designated maltreatable person. You have carte blanche to insult, berate or even harm him at no cost to yourself and certainly no repercussions. He expresses anti-oversocialization thoughts and is solitary and away from the hive mind so he develops wrongthink. He's everything the powers that be don't want people to be. He didn't do a single wrong moral thing in the movie.
>He didn't do a single wrong moral thing in the movie.
Taking a date to a porn movie is the wrong decision.
It's just inappropriate, hardly a moral wrongdoing.
Murder is morally wrong.
He only killed bottom feeding scum. Get that Christcuckery out of here.
He didn't have any justifiable reason to kill them. The girl didn't want his help, and as the letter at the end shows, she had parents to go back to the entire time, but chose to be exactly where she was. It's left unexplained why that was.
We see two occasions where Iris tries to leave and is restrained.
He's an obvious christcuck, there's no saving him.
She is able to meet Travis at the cafe and in the street so she's obviously not on a leash 24/7
And yet whenever she does actually try to leave she's stopped.
I remember when Harvey Keitel gives him the $20 at night, when was the second time?
There was no second time but that scene was there to establish that if she actually wanted to leave, she wouldn't be allowed. Her meeting with Travis was probably okay-ed by Sport.
The rest of movie establishes she wanders around with her friend most of the day, she could easily catch a train or a taxi to where her parents lived.
Doesn't mean Travis wasn't right for saving her.
Right, and the way Keitel acted was definitely like someone that would just let her go.
The movie makes it obvious that she has deluded herself into believing she actually wants this because that's what Keitel wants her to think, because she's just a child and children are easily influenced
When she's telling Sport she doesn't like what she's doing and he starts slow dancing with her and manipulates her into staying.
Jesus and his apostles carried swords. They absolutely would kill people.
>Murder is morally wrong
sounds like something Satan would say
>Why did he go to the political rally
Originally for Betsy. Finally, to assassinate Palantine.
>why did he pretend to be interested in the secret service?
He was planning an assassination. Anything they could tell him might come in handy. When the agent wanted personal information he bailed.
He was fricking crazy
>assassinating a politician is bad
I don't understand why more of the crazy shooters that go on sprees or mass murders don't target politicians. Really makes you think.
Ex-soldiers are pretty moronic so our society has to mollycoddle them.
Because obviously Travis had lost his shit by then and was fed-up with the scummy world around him. He only showed up to the rally to scope it out and assess his "target".
He was sperging out because he's a crazy man and it got him on a list.
story of this movie makes no sense
guy kills a buncha dudes and doesnt go to prison
moron ass movie
>guy kills a buncha dudes and doesnt go to prison
He was shot by them. The only witness is Iris who didn't see everything and is unlikely to say anything incriminating about Travis. The DA could pursue a murder charge but there's not a great deal of evidence and they'd be putting the guy who almost died saving a child from a bunch of pedophile pimps on trial. Not a lot to win from that taking that to trial even in the event a jury opts to find guilty. Why waste taxpayer money?
He just wanted people to think he was important.
That ending meant all of New York City was as crazy as Travis.
Yeah. But if he died at the end, he also died among the scum he hated and would just seem indistinguishable. He'd just be another drop in the bucket and the whole thing is corrupt.
Just met arnold, best day of my fricking life
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