Everything in its Right Place

The Travel Diary of South-east Asia What follows here is part of a series for anyone who is interested about my travels over a year ago. I spent three months in South-east Asia. Though true to the actual handwritten diary in terms of events which I recorded on my trip day-to-day, I have changed the names and where possible gone into more detail for each day with the luxury of having a laptop this time around! I don’t know how regularly this will appear, but I’ll sporadically type up bitesize chunks of it, as doing it in one piece would be an arduous task that I really can’t be bothered with. Part one concerns my decision to go traveling, the flight, and Singapore. ****************** There comes a time when an insatiable desire to escape from the dreary greys of western skies and monotonous daily grind cannot be quashed, where one must seek an escape to pastures new, and witness something extraordinary to keep the glint from worn eyes fading. For me this time came at 25, coming out of a...

Taxi Driver  Yeah so the whole lockdown and getting on it with the film analyasis/review/whatever-you-want-to-call-it didn't last so long. Almost 2 months since my last entry, shocking! And guess what... I still can't be bothered to do anything new. So why not enjoy an average essay on Taxi Driver and about how the urban environment effects characters which I did in my first year of Uni... yay. Taxi Driver is a 1976 film that is, as the title suggests, about a taxi driver. The film follows Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a 26-year-old ex-marine that takes on a night time job driving taxis due to having trouble sleeping.  The opening scene shows an extreme close up of Travis’ eyes darting from side to side, with quick cuts to long shots showing different streets of New York from inside his cab. An interesting extract to look at is Scorsese talking about making this film in Scorsese on Scorsese :  Much of Taxi Driver arose from my feeling that movies are really a k...