Travis Bickle is many things: a veteran, a cab driver, a sociopath, and a storyteller. He speaks to the audience through most of the film. This narrator is not talking to us, but he is feeding his own madness. Travis's perception is perpetually bent, so this makes him a unreliable narrator.
Fact of the matter is that Travis is the only person who can tell this story. After all, the movie is called Taxi Driver, not 12 Year Old Prostitute, White Pimp, or Campaigner. If we were to hear this story from anybody else, it would be a completely different organism. Conversely, if the film was third person and objective, it would most likely lose all of its tone and theme.
There could be no Taxi Driver without a taxi driver and there could be no Travis Bickle without Robert De Niro.
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