Is there any movie about true loneliness? The kind that makes

>>81622907
>normie bullshit.
Taxi Driver is literally normie bullshit.

The Master maybe

lost in translation captures loneliness better than taxi driver

taxi driver is more about depression

>>81622958

No it is not. Normies think they understand it, but they don't. It's an esoteric movie.

>>81622973

Not really. The Master is more about aimlessness.

>>81623007

> Boo hoo. Why is nobody paying attention to me? :(

Maybe a woman's kind of "loneliness" but not true loneliness.

>>81623037
>No it is not. Normies think they understand it, but they don't. It's an esoteric movie.
You do realise how autistic this is, right? I'm surprised you even managed to type it desu.

>>81623073

elliot is that you?

Why did we give /r9k/ posters the ability to post on other boards

>>81622907
I Stand Alone

>>81622907
Dekalog: Six
Cracks.

>>81623141

Normies: "Yeah bro. I wish I could take out all the scumbags! Travis is an epic badass!"


I get uncomfortable watching Travis' descent into madness because it is all too familiar. That's what happens when you're that alone. Your spirit is atrophied

>>81623007
"no"

>>81622907
One Hour Photo would be a great example if it was actually a good movie

>>81623323

First one sounds interesting. Second one I'm skeptical about because the cast is full of attractive women, but I'll look into it more.

>>81623242
Top lel

>>81622907
If he's so alone who took a picture?

>>81623334
you're so new it hurts my eyes

>>81622907
You need to watch some Jim Jarmusch OP, quintessential lonely kino. Especially Broken Flowers, Mystery Train, and stranger than Paradise

>>81623289
I thought about that one too, but it's more nihilistic and misanthropic than anything

Nobody said The Conversation?
It's babbie's first /essentialisolation/-core

"TO RUTH:" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkIeOvjgKG4

It's a short film inspired by the crazy writings of some stalker anon.

>>81622958
shut up normie

>>81623387
I thought Dekalog: Six did a good job of capturing loneliness like Taxi Driver.

Cracks is a best to go in blind and Eva Green's character does face true loneliness once you find out about who she really is.

Though it's polarizing so take that as you will.

>>81623413
not an argument

>>81622907
>takes a girl to a porn theatre
>she leaves him
>he then tries to assassinate the president
Taxi Driver was about autism

>>81623656

it's basically a character study of your average /pol/ + /r9k/ personality type in the days before the internet when you had to go out and do stuff

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>>81623776

Is this why the M65 jacket is so popular among weirdos?

>>81623656
>president
It's just some guy running for office, the same one the girl was working for.

Moon.

>>81623656
why didn't he just drop a bag with a bomb there

>>81622907
The Elliot Rodger biopic I'm working on.

>>81622907
Castaway
The Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez

>>81624214

won't work, in a movie you need the protagonist to elements of sympathy

>>81624306
never said he was the protagonist. also
>need
nice perscriptivism, first-year

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>>81624277
>The Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez

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>>81622907
>Is there any movie about true loneliness? The kind that makes you deranged?

It's not simply about loneliness, the protagonist was already mentally unstable to begin with.

Right now, i consider Taxi Driver to be THE movie that describes the current generation in it's most accurate and brutal details.
The part of this generation that sees themselves as "intellectuals" but are just limited, shut in autistic robots quickly descending into utter madness.

>>81623656
>>81623776
>>81623941
These anons are hitting the nail on the head.
Taxi Driver is current generation nerd/otaku/alt-right shut in twitter/imageboard shitposter: the movie.
I've been thinking about this for weeks now, about how accurate it is, about how significant and relevant this movie is right now.

It's a wonderful movie, it's one of the best movies i've ever seen, and right now it's one of the most relevant movies ever, i don't think a lot of people understand this yet, but maybe looking back, years from now, they'll see the link.

>>81622973
Freddie was able to get some sweet tang

Travis was an autistic virgin

>>81624357
>i don't think a lot of people understand this yet, but maybe looking back, years from now, they'll see the link.
it literally won an oscar

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>>81622907
The Man Who Sleeps is everything you are looking for.
It represents that situation even more than Taxi Driver really.

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Is your pussy wet?

Is your pussy all wet?

>>81624396
No, i mean the part where the movie is more relevant than ever to this generation.

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>>81624357
>Right now, i consider Taxi Driver to be THE movie that describes the current generation in it's most accurate and brutal details.
>The part of this generation that sees themselves as "intellectuals" but are just limited, shut in autistic robots quickly descending into utter madness.

s-stop it anon

>>81624214
id watch that i think a lot of people got that story wrong

>>81624357
how did scorsese know the inner workings of the average shitposter type so well?

do you think he was one as well?

he is like 5'2" so maybe he was that type of person in his 20s

deniro seems severely autisitc IRL so he is probably a baneposter IRL

>>81624530
considering deniro married that negress even though he's rich and famous id say he's legitimately retarded

>>81622907
Cast Away
Terminal

>>81624530
>how did scorsese know the inner workings of the average shitposter type so well?
Ask the screenwriter, he's responsible for the story.

>>81624357
you're a fucking dumb
every idiot believes he's special and intelligent

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>>81624214
For an Elliot Rodger biopic to work you have to shoot it like an 80's coming of age movie, complete with the pop soundtrack. First half is all about him trying and failing to get laid, then the second is him giving up humanity and plotting his revenge. Take on me should play during the actual shooting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

>>81624740
>No Sayin' Alive mall walk scene

>>81624740
Who would you cast?

Hardmode: No Ezra Miller.

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>>81624530
He didn't.
He just wanted to make a movie about a specific kind of person, it just so happens that this generation that kind of person has become incredibly common and imageboards are where these type of people naturally tend to congregate towards, as they get isolated and rejected everywhere else.

I could talk about Travis for hours, it's a fascinating character, and when you meet so many people that are exactly like him you understand him, and the movie, so much more.

The point of the movie isn't to glorify Travis, nor to paint him as a villain (a lot of people might disagree with that point, but i stand by it, i don't think we're meant to think he's a bad guy and that's it).
The point is that he's a completely broken man in every way, there's something inherently wrong with him, with his brain, how he thinks, him as a human being.
He can never be fixed, he tries so fucking hard to keep his life "orderly", to find purpose, to improve himself, to improve the situation of his "habitat", the world he sees around him as corrupt and degenerate.
But he's the biggest corruption of them all, he's completely broken inside in every way, anything he tries goes badly, anything he touches turns to shit, he will NEVER be able to live a happy life because he should've never been born in the first place.
He exclusively exists to cause harm to those around him and be miserable, regardless of what he tries.
He's essentially a sick puppy that has no hope of ever functioning propely and should've just have been put down a long time ago.

Not because he's evil, but because he's just not meant for the world.
There's so many people like Travis out there, right now.
People that try incredibly hard to function and live every day, and they just can't, no matter what they try.

>>81624840
I would say Miles Teller, but he fucked that up by getting buff for that boxing movie.

>>81622958
>Taxi Driver
>normie

>>81624805
Kek, I could see this working.
>Elliot tries to reinvent his style
>gets some expensive gaudy clothes that he thinks look good
>walks through the mall with fake confidence smiling at girls as he struts by

>>81623941
Comfy, badass, lots of pockets

>>81622907
Taxi Driver is about loneliness and PTSD

>>81624530

he was a sickly shut in kid who idolized the alpha gangsters who ran his neighbourhood

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Pic related is pretty good.

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>>81625131

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>>81624879
>>81624357

>DUDE HE'S JUST LIKE YOU LMAO

What Happened Was...

It's set during a date between two desperate and lonely coworkers. The monologue at the end is probably the best explanation of crippling loneliness I've ever seen.

>>81622907
I have that gun

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>>81624840
>Who would you cast?

That's easy.

>>81622907
No, it's the same reason why Peter Parker has friends in the new Spider-Man movie, being lonely "isn't relatable".
Not being able to get girls "isn't relatable".

>>81623413
I'm not even that guy but I think you're just making shit up at this point.

>>81624427
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLk2q2aN4eE

>>81625479
Dano is like 40 though

>>81624740
>shoot first half on that shitty 70's color film with a wide angle lens
>shoot 2nd half on digital with 180 shutter speed and no color grading
>hire trent reznor to do shootout score, somewhere between ambient and post industrial
Kino

>>81622907
Lost in Translation is fucking garbage.

>>81625479
Instant classic film if this happens.

>>81625479
Classic.

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>>81622907
There's a Chris-Chan movie

https://youtu.be/5Rf-PXUL1ME

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>>81625626
>hire trent reznor to do shootout score, somewhere between ambient and post industrial
Solid idea.
But right now he's 100% focused on working with Atticus Ross so it would be too much on the arranged ambient side, you'd have to talk to Ross and specify the intent with him a bit more clearly.

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>>81625623

He doesn't look that old, pic related is him a year ago.

>>81625850
This man has one of the most punchable faces i've ever seen.

>>81622907
Watch Kairo.

>>81625484
Honestly, nu-Spider-Man is such a Chad it sickens me. I mean, Garfield was good looking, but he was also scrawny and a massive beta, so him being an outcast was relatable, believable, and didn't lose the fan girls. But this is just fucking unbelievable

>>81624306
>>81624456
>>81624740
I was exaggerating, it's actually a one man musical / concept album that I want to write.

>>81624654
>not wanting to marry an african queen and participate in tribal mating rituals every weekend

>>81626246
Don't do a concept album, it would be stupid as fuck.
However a musical on it is kinda interesting.

>>81624740
They already made this film, it's called The Dirties

>>81625982
>Garfield was good looking, but he was also scrawny and a massive beta
He was good for the first half of TASM, but when he started dating Gwen he immediately become confident and an alpha.
It was helpful that Gwen was nerdy too, but they still became a couple too quickly.

but fuck MCU Spider-Man.
I was so excited, Tom Holland is great, but they turned Peter into Miles.
I wanted Peter Parker, the borderline school shooter, the underdog.

Looking at any promotional material for Homecoming makes me rage autistically, Spider-Man has been my favorite since I was a kid and I just want one accurate movie.
The Raimi original is close, but dated and Tobey was way too old, he also barely acted like Spider-Man.

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>>81622907
Tho one always gets me.

>>81626246
>>81626321
>>81624214
Elliot Rodger isn't sympathetic, he was a spoiled rich brat, 5'9, and a racist.

If you try to make him out to be sympathetic you'll just be ostracized.
I did have an idea for a musical involving Elliot Rodger though.

>>81625170
Is it really about loneliness though? I didn't quite get that. Maybe 'alone-ness'. I don't even know if there's really a difference desu, but he didn't seem lonely

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>>81626471
Never forget.

>>81622907
Robinson Crusoe, and all derivative stories, asshole.

>>81626321
I meant a concept album as an initial presentation, like Jesus Christ Superstar, not some gay prog shit.

>>81625850
>Paul Dano will never be your best friend

Why even live ;_;

thread soundtrack
https://youtu.be/RGqUo7a7J_I

>>81622907
Thank you for this post OP. Good post.

>>81626471
Too bad it's a shit movie.

>Travis Bickle meets more people on a daily basis than you so cannot relate
>He also has a job

Fucking normies

>>81626690

it was a different time

>>81626577
>There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

He seemed so disconnected from the world , he has no friends, no family, lives in a shitty apartment and the only thing that stays close to a "companion" is fucking a bird he has in a cage. The only thing that he cares about is his job as a hitman.

There's this great scene earlier in the film where he's in a car and a girl in another car smiles at him, but all he ever does is look at her and then proceed to ignore her completely. This pretty much says everything we need to know about him.

Or thats what i got from the film, perhaps i'm wrong.

>>81626727
>ywn be mugged in times square after jerking off in a porn theater
Feels bad man

>>81626956
>You will never be mugged just so you can hang out with another person for a while

>>81626386
> I wanted Peter Parker, the borderline school shooter, the underdog.
>Tobey was way too old, he also barely acted
like Spider-Man.

what is comics!Parker really like? comicstans always tell me MCU Peter is the most accurate but then again, they are pretty much normalfags

>>81627153
>what is comics!Parker really like?
It's impossible to pin down due to the sheer amount of writers, twists and retcons the character had to live through.

>>81625564
you couldn't help but to root for him

so close and then shot down by Lara Flynn Boyle

best lusty perv on screen

>>81624879
..damn ;_;
>tfw td is my favorite movie because im just like Travis (stalked a dyke then plotted to kidnap and r**e her until she moved somewhere
Still KV

>>81627153
MCU Peter isn't accurate at all, he acted like a fanboy during the entirety of Civil War and the "really old movie, The Empire Strikes Back" line was OOC, even though comic Peter doesn't like Star Wars.
Marvel Studios talked about Spider-Man like he was gonna be really integral to the movie, but when they got the rights to him they just used him to fill a generic "inexperienced rookie" role, and that's not his character.

Spider-Man is really sarcastic and playful, the quintessential and perhaps original quipping superhero.
I'm sure the reason why all the characters quip in the MCU is because Spider-Man was Marvel's most popular character and they didn't have the rights, so they turned every character into Spider-Man.

Peter Parker is usually considered the everyman, but he's actually an underdog.
A reoccurring part of Spider-Man comics is "Parker Luck", whenever something good happens to him, something worse usually happens.
Original teen Peter had no friends at all, and he didn't really get bullied, him getting bullied is sort of a retcon.
If you look at the original Spider-Man comic a normal exchange is Betty and Flash inviting Peter out, Peter says he's busy, Flash calls Peter's a "nerd", and Peter goes into a fit of rage.
There was one issue where Peter almost left Flash to die, or get seriously injured.

I understand not going with that version of Peter Parker since it's pretty extreme, but since we're getting high school Pete I wanted to see nerdy nervous Peter Parker, the Peter who didn't have any friends.
And I wanted to see a Spider-Man that's actually funny, not an inexperienced rookie, Peter should be boasting with confidence with the mask on, not mumbling and speaking casually.

Marvel Studios turned Peter Parker into Miles Morales, the boring black/Latino Spider-Man that had friends from the start, including a fat Asian best friend. The main conflict for Spider-Man homecoming is even directly taken from the first few Miles comics.

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>>81622907
I Stand Alone and Eraserhead.

>>81623007
no.

lost in translation is more going through temporary depression and self pity.

taxi driver is about true loneliness and isolation with all his delusions imagining himself as some hero and paranoia.

>>81623007
Lost in translation is the perfect normie movie, >bohooo I'm so lonely in a strange country but it's only been a couple months I guess I cheat on my spouse tehee.

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>>81627910
No.
Eraserhead is a bit about solitude but it's not the main theme of the movie.
Eraserhead is about the horrible void forming inside your skull every time you're awake at 5 am staring at the ceiling, and on the corner of your eyes you swear the shadow inside your room just outside your cone of vision is growing and pulsating.

I'm making it sound like it's an horror movie, but that's not what i'm trying to say.
It's basically about bein uncomfortable with everything.
You start to feel your sheets on your body, then your clothes, then your skin, your muscles, you become aware of the bones inside you, you start breathing manually, you think about every single time you spilled spaghetti when you were younger during important times in your life, you reflect on your job, or lack thereof, your family, your friends if you have any, every single human interaction you've ever had in your life, etc.

It's a deep dive into everything that doesn't allow you to feel well.
There's themes of solitude, and there's also theme of the fear of starting a mantaining a family, relationship problems and all that, but it's more or less everything that makes you ill, all at once, simultaneously.
You aren't meant to be scared, you're meant to feel sick, somewhere where you don't want to be mentally.

It's layers upon layers of Lynch personal history and problems during his life, and then your own, they add upon each other until you have this giant smelly lasagna made of shit and mud.

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>>81629636
Have you ever watch Dekalog: Six?

>>81629636
Eraserhead is about fatherhood, dumbass.

>>81622907
Roman Polanski's The Tenant

Talented Mr Ripley

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>>81627640
>Being this edgy

french movie called Pickpocket directed by Bresson

>>81624427
Happiness was great

>>81625555
Absolute waste of digits. You all are retarted.

>>81622958
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHH

>>81624357
>its retard think his opinion is anything special and require superior intellect to be conjured episode
I couldn't stress this enough, please fucking kill yourself

>>81629838
this, what a retard typing up some fucking essay lmao

Try American Gigilo an Light Sleeper.Both by Paul Schrader as well and have similair themes to Taxi Driver.

>>81627910

AGREED

I STAND ALONE is probably the most brutally honest movie ever made about the bitter reality of alone-ness.

It is also one of the most depressing and nihilistic movies ever made.

I saw if forever ago and it still stays with me today.

I love Taxi Driver, especially the Late for the Sky interlude
https://youtu.be/kCuN6H3V6_Q
this scene is the single purest and most honest to god representation of isolation I've ever seen. it nails me to the floor every time.

>>81633108
I like how Scorese made the racism subtle, it's much more authentic. If it'd been made today Travis would probably be a frothing neo-Nazi

>>81633340
Yeah he did well casting a white guy as a pimp, it honestly saved the movie, it's legacy now would be much more overtly tied up to race violence

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>>81633104

It really does capture all encompassing cynicism and loneliness better than perhaps any other film. One of the best endings in film I've seen as well.

>>81633108
>the shoes on the dance floor

What was the intent behind this?

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>>81633574
>the shoes represent travis, while everyone is dancing and having a good time he is standing among them on his own

>You forgot they are empty. He isn't even there.

>>81633108
>>81633340

I've seen people here before talk about that scene and cite it as an example of Travis being racist. I don't get it. He doesn't seem racist at all. He just seems indifferent to everyone regardless.

>>81622907
The Man Who Sleeps.

Watch it.

>>81634724
I think the racism element is existent in the scenes in and outside the diners where he stares down the pimps and the black guy walking outside before he talks to Wizard. I never read it into the TV scene, but it might be there.

>>81634724
I think the racism is unclear, though it is suggested. That said, the idea that he's indifferent to everyone is preposterous. He is very obviously bitter, resentful, and angry; this scene is antithetical to indifference. Perhaps you can't read facial expressions, but the fact that he's watching it should say enough.

>>81633340
>>81634724
>>81634909
Travis is not a racist.
If you think Travis is racist, you'r essentially projecting yourself and your limitations and/or assumptions onto him.

Travis is a broken man that desperately seeks order.
See it as sort of an extreme case of OCD.
He wants order inside himself and around himself, at all costs, he despises elements of chaos that disrupt his order, that's all it is.

>>81634724
I never understood the "Travis is racist" thing either.

He even says other cabbies don't take black people, but he doesn't care. He seemed indifferent to everyone.

Taxi Driver: Pumped Up Kicks Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6AKnd-9MAE

>>81622907

Knight Of Cups.

Its my depressed afternoon favorite

>>81623656
lol

>>81622907
The Black Mirror Christmas Special

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>>81624357
And Idiocracy is a documentary about DRUMPF's presidency.

Fuck, guess I gotta rewatch Taxi Driver again

>>81635221
Knight of Cups was the first Malick I saw and I have to agree with you, it really fucked me up, though I think it is extremely dependent on who you are

The Coca Cola product placement throughout this film drove me fucking crazy. Good thing it does hold up to the praise or else it would have been too much for me. Seriously, it seemed like every 15 there was a scene with three or four cokes with their labels facing the camera in really unnatural placement.

I watched it for the first time like last month. Glad I finally did regardless.

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>>81622907
What did he actually mean by this?

Anomalisa might qualify to a degree. It's also really good.

>>81626933
He's just too professional at his work, knowing acquaintances and luxuries would only hinder his performance.
He had a code and lived for it. So faithful to it that his performance went spiralling down after the pianist lied in his favor to the police. Once they put a price on her, he realized he would rather die on the line of work than killing someone he owns to/got attached to and going on with his life.
A samurai was a man that built his whole life around his trade. Honor, discipline and decisiveness while gripping the sword were his everything. The same goes for Costello as a hitman.

>>81625850
CLASSIC

>>81635183

Fucking sacrilege.

>>81623656
>that scene where he chats up the secret service

>>81626578
lel he's like 3 feet away

>>81624357
>imageboard shitposter
an imageboard like 4chan dot org?
>>81635744
tophposter best poster

>>81635221
>>81636773
>A Los Angeles screenwriter (Christian Bale) indulges his wild side with a stripper (Teresa Palmer), a model (Freida Pinto) and a married woman (Natalie Portman).
sounds pretty lonely.

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>>81626578
too real

>>81636911
i don't think it was product placement or if it was i think it wasn't intentional.

i think businesses just weren't so up the ass about that stuff back then. Like do you really think american bandstand or those porn films or tons of other companies would want to be associated with this film?

>>81627828
What happens in Civil War (Stark taking a liking to Parker and Cap thinking he's too inexperienced) is almost exactly the plot of an issue of Ultimate Spider-Man. The MCU Spidey is very similar to his Ultimate incarnation.

>>81643488
yeah but Ultimate Spider-Man was complete shit and the worst incarnation of Peter Parker.

>>81643517
opinions

>>81623399

underrated

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>>81624357
>Average 4chan poster is Travis Bickle but wants to be Spielberg making reassuring Disney poison instead of Scorsese exorcism & catharsis

>>81637176
Except you end up hating the protagonist. If you can even call him that, he's a scumbag.

>>81624397
>157 replies
>nobody fucking acknowledged this

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>>81641266
>skid demon

I almost bought it

>>81637176

My first thought as well!

>>81622958
kys my man

>>81622907
literally /r9k/ the movie

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>>81625850
classique

>>81634995
Travis will never relax around blacks. He is mindful of them from across the room. It isn't that he hates them but he doesn't trust them in his presence. He hate traitorous whites.

>>81622907

My home movies are pretty good at this.

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I enjoyed Taxi Driver tremendously, I'm of the same opinion as you, and the movie Oh Boy! (German, black-n-white but modern) is the one I also found relatable. The Man Who Sleeps gets mentioned, but I found it to be quite shit and overrated trash.

Other than that, I highly doubt there's something that could compare with Taxi Driver in that regard and sense.

>>81623007
NO, you're wrong. only if you're a normie or a woman.

lost in translation is shit movie too. it also is about a normie loneliness. oh wow I have friends, I am attractive, I have comfortable position in life, a partner etc., but I still am kinda moody you know :^(

>>81622958
Wrong.

>>81622907

The Elephant Man
Moon
Solaris
Sunshine
Lost in Translation
First half of Passengers I guess

>>81624277
great answers

i haven't seen it but i'll add
all is lost

>>81624357
I think you're right about everything, but not the whole generation. Do you really fucking think there are THAT MANY people like that? Impossible. Maybe more than in past, but certainly not the entire fucking generation.

>>81622907
LOVE & POP is probably the brutal and genuine depiction of lonely people I've ever seen in a movie. Only competitor would be I Stand Alone. Real autists know that you aren't really lonely until you feel the red mist descend.

>>81624879
>The point is that he's a completely broken man in every way, there's something inherently wrong with him, with his brain, how he thinks, him as a human being.

No, he's just tired of the filth of humanity that he sees in New York every day as a taxi cab driver.

I mean, Scorsese is in the movie himself, gets in his cab, talks about how he wants to shoot some chick that is cheating on him.

He takes the lady to a porno movie because it's been so long he's been with a classy lady, that he doesn't understand she's higher class than the whores and skanks he sees every day.

I can only think of movies where either the characters had something and then they lost it, boo-hoo, or they were already on the road to depression, so the films are mostly about the descend/transformation and their experiences while being lonely and alienated.

So, here it goes. Le feu follet (the novel is better though), Umberto D, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, About Schmidt, Tony Takitani, Moon, Shame, The Machinist, Solaris.

>>81622907
into the wild?

>>81644791
/tv/ is a manchild plebland, what else is new

>>81625343
this post right here

Travis fought in nam and works 16 hours a day in his taxi. He isn't like your average channer at all.

>>81634975
He calls black people spooks, anon

>>81647673
> works 16 hours a day in his taxi

'works'

it's basically shitposting 16 hours a day, not much different desu.

>fought in nam

wasn't there lottery mandatory conscription? i mean what 4channer gonna do? go and conscript, most of them. MOST of them.

>>81647722
yeah in fucking 60/70s, big deal

>>81647728
Driving a taxi around all day is hard fucking graft, mate. Nothing compared to the dopamine drip that is shitposting on 4chan.

Yeah fair enough, I guess conscription was mandatory.

>>81647757

IF you're living in the north in the 70's after the civil rights movement, it does say a little bit about you.

>>81623413
He's right though

>>81647804
> Driving a taxi around all day is hard fucking graft, mate

I dont think so. Driving a taxi is also a dopamine drip, you're earning money, you're completing quests dropping passengers off, if it's a qt girl you naturally feel better just being close to her and maybe talking etc etc etc

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>>81623334
you're a huge pussy ass bitch who is clearly making a conscious attempt to be modest and empathetic

>>81647880
>being this young and clueless
I never expected I'd ever envy the life of a retard.

>>81647880
Nope. Driving a taxi is nowhere near as pleasant as shitposting on 4chan or spreading /pol/ memes on twitter. I just plain disagree with you

>>81647961

>the worthless trash bottom of the barrel scum who probably drives or has driven taxis for living
>m-muh labor m-muh job beri dibicul pls masta respect dzhob respek labor beri dibicul

>>81648026
It's not even a matter of difficulty or income. You think you can hack your brain into thinking it's some RPG? Are you stupid? It's a soul crushing job like every other job where you do the same shit all day, every week, for years on end with absolutely nothing to motivate you, and the fact you need to interact with other people (drivers and passengers) makes it even worse than other minimum wage jobs.

Don't get me wrong. I used to think shitty jobs like those were harmless 13 years ago. Now I know better.

>>81648186
> You think you can hack your brain into thinking it's some RPG? Are you stupid?
Well it actually is how people think. anyways, the original was
4chan = dopamine drip
all I said was
taxi driving = dopamine drip too. i never implied it's as good as 4chan in terms of being a dopamine drip etc. you're just autistic whoreson spouting obvious irrelevant shit. probably dumb and reddit as well. just stop posting

>>81648248
>i never implied it's as good as 4chan in terms of being a dopamine drip

yes you did

>>81648248

Look, I know that people pointing out that driving a taxi in NYC is a lot different than shitposting on 4chan kind of ruins your whole "Travis Bickle is every 4chan poster" theory, but try to keep up.

>>81648285
> yes you did
nope, you fucktard go back to that post and read. I made examples of how it can be a dopamine drip, but I never implied it was equal or better. whoreson retard with 0 reading comprehension, hopefully your mother dies from cancer and soon you follow

>>81622907
Batman v Superman

Holy fuck, the ILLUSTRATION of normie trash vs travis kind of people in THIS VERY THREAD

>>81624701
that's what you think because you're autistic
you can't comprehend that others arent like you

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>dumb frogposters thinking they're special snowflakes protecting their safe space
>said safe space is one of the worst boards on this site
This is pretty fucking sad.

>>81648519
you don't fight your opposing side by adopting the memes of your enemy
just a headsup

>>81648319
IT's what you were >implying

Why bother posting a reply in the first place then?

>>81643855
You are my sunshine.

>>81623334
Why you dont stop being a bitch. Wahh wahh i lonely i suffered i i

>>81624357
>Right now, i consider Taxi Driver to be THE movie that describes the current generation in it's most accurate and brutal details.
Retard

>>81623242
if normalfags stopped posting on /r9k/ this wouldn't happen, you know.

>>81622907
Observe and Report

>>81634972
Fuck off retard stop projecting, He's indifferent

>>81624879

It's the world that is broken, not him. He is just what those who refuse to surrender eventually become. As those around them fall, one by one, they must eventually go to the other side, or remain alone forever.

>>81623334
Exactly. Normies think travis is a cool antihero, bit the moment they see someone like him in real life, they are creeped out.

>>81622907
Nothing Personal was decent. It's about a hermit and a nomad with a cunty personality

>>81622907
Also Mary and Max is great animated film about loneliness. But I doubt there's any as accurate as Taxi driver

>>81622907
All you fuckers realize that Taxi Driver is based on Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky?

That book reads like (my) an anon's thoughts on paper.

>>81625850
Very retro aesthetic

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>mfw watching trailer park boys

>>81624357
Serious question how do I stop my descent into madness.

>>81643565
Thank you, I trying to find the name of this movie for years now.

>>81650119
Somehow, I don't know how, you have to connect with other people.

>>81649877
The Double? A somewhat decent adaptation of another Dostoevsky work. Although, when she comes to his side at the end, it seems forced, though it could be a hallucination.

>>81624879
I don't think he is unfixable, rather he just can't learn to feel his true feelings beyond what the society tells is good or bad, basically people don't even know that they can feel or accept themselves and try to stay strong instead of giving in to their emotions and finding the path beyond desperation.

Castaway on the moon is a great film. It deals with a hikikomori

>>81650149
Cone on man I'm kinda desperate.

>>81650391
go to the doctor and get those antidepressant normie pills, theyll either fix you or cause you to kill people, why not give it a try?

Imagine the 2017 "reimagination" of this film
>Überdriver

>>81650800
>Travina is a strong independent "female" uber driver that is sick of all the "alt right" and goes insane over the course of the film

Gangster No 1.

>>81650466
> tfw too scared to get help for depression and anxiety because if they did succesfully "cure" them I would lose the things that had defined my life since early teens and the lens throughout which my entire outlook on the world has been based. What would I be without crippling loniness, panic attacks at the most banal of social interactions and self destructive thoughts of grandiose sucicide being the only thing that keeps me motivated to stay functioning

Cut away the cancer and all that's left of me is a skeleton with nothing to hold the bones together.

>>81625138
travis bickle was lying about vietnam, like he lied to his parents about his secret mission

>>81629089
this, movie actually disgusts me

>>81652909
He can't lie to his employer

>>81636943
just desensitizing himself in case he needs to do something hairy

>>81650180
The Double is more about coming out of loneliness with Simon defeating James and getting with the girl.

Though the book was more about everything in his life being a hallucination.

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>>81651053
Mein neger. Have to agree with this based anon. Gangster No 1. deals with the themes of loneliness in a pretty interesting way. Travis inadvertently isolates himself further and further from society as the movie goes on, while the main character of Gangster No 1. isolates himself purposely.

>>81623941
Vietnam movies anon. Taxi Driver too, but Vietnam war movies more than that, because people there are cool soldiers and shit and in Taxi Driver you have uncool autist who goes batshit crazy.

are loners born or made? what is it specifically about a person that makes him more likely to be voluntarily isolationist, bitter, angry and cynical?

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>>81622907
If you're looking for a film like Taxi Driver that depicts a worst case scenario f the effects of loneliness and depression , you might like this. It's also set in the gritty pre-Guliani New York and features amazing special effects from Tom Savini.

Don't waste your time with the remake. The 1st person gimmick wears thin after awhile, and casting of Wood was a huge mistake. Watch the original OP. It's free on jewtube last time I checked.

>>81654581
also what would be worse, being a loner taxi driver in NYC in the 70s, or a loner taxi driver in some small town where there's absolutely nothing going on, somewhere in the middle of nowhere

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>>81622907
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

>>81629089
I can't believe Coppola just had Murray's character straight up rape the girl, one of the only times I just said this is too much.

>>81647728
>wasn't there lottery mandatory conscription
You volunteered for Vietnam. I think they paid more there but also ensured that you know what kind of swamp you're getting into.

>>81654653
Now that IS a normie movie. Still pretty good. Now fuck off to plebbit, just in case.

>>81654653
Eh, it's more about failure imo

>>81652909
Where did he get his massive fucking scar from then? Travis lying about Vietnam is a theory, and not a very strong one at that.

>>81624427
FUCK YES

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>>81622958
tie a noose and see if it kills you

>>81623007
Couldnt even finish that movie to be honest. It was boring as fuck.

>>81623334
you're just a normie with a crises baka.

My vote is for "up in the air" and "flight".

>>81624357
I wrote a heartfelt responsive. Kept reading ran into a racist post. Your post in action. This thread is too real for them so they have to create a "happening" or "get attention". No one can grow if they arent willing to examine themselves. A thread about loneliness is perfect for that.
4chan has made me examine myself with an eye that i've never had. I look past the cheap laughs and focus on the educated answers.
What ive learned over my decade of internet time, We cant identify with 4chan or anything else.
Stop calling yourselves otuko and autist. Say yes I have a problem but im going to do other things.

>>81624701
Most people dont. They put on a show or try to convince themselves

>>81655057
No you fucking didn't.
were there more volunteers than draftees?
Yes, but there was still a draft.

>>81650391
There is nothing else I can think of.

>>81654581
Some folks are born

>>81654646
In the city, most definitely. You'd see every fucker actually living life while you're rotting inside a cab. A small town would provide an excuse at least.

>>81656898
Made to wave the hack

>>81655881
uh

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Lonliness Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Talk To People Like Nigga Go Outside Haha

>>81657862
Paradox of the modern time my poo skinned friend

Just imagine how good The Martian would have been if they cut out literally everything Earth-related and make everything solely from the guy's point of view

>>81657862

lolol

>>81658185
> make everything solely from the guy's point of view
like first person pov? it would be shit, see hardcore henry. first person human POV sucks for spectating/watching/appreciating something.

the angles, everything just sucks

>>81646468
If Taxi Driver is representative of any board it's /tv/ cause Travis is a pedo.

>>81625479
classic

>>81647255
the red mist?

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>>81647255
>Love & Pop is director Hideaki Anno's first live action film,
thanks, anon, will find a download link.

>>81658672
>psychotic sociopath
>shut in
>loner
>virgin
>pedo
>bad haircut and fashion sense
Definitely /ourguy/

normalfags will never understand this film
i work 15 hours a day driving a taxi around schiphol airport (the netherlands) for over 10 years
the only thing I do is browse 4chan and watching porn without mastrubating
nobody wants to talk to me
no women like me
and everyday I see these scumbags everywhere
ill never do anything because i am a weakling, like most of us are
i dont see myself as better than normalfags
im less, i am a shell of a human being

>>81622907
I like Taxi Driver, I dislike Lost in Translation, and I like Eternal Sunshine.

I never really thought Taxi Driver was ABOUT loneliness.

Christine (2016)

>>81659894
>I never really thought Taxi Driver was ABOUT loneliness.
It's an introspective piece about solitude your barin dead milllennial

What else could in be "about"?

>>81624530
He never intended Travis to be a relatable wish-fulfillment hero, from what I heard.

>In the original draft, Schrader had written the role of Sport as a black man. There were also additions of other negative black roles. Scorsese believed that this would give the film an overly racist subtext, so they were changed to white roles.

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>>81624879
fuck
where did it all go so fucking wrong

>>81651504
Exactly, I'm terrified of who I'd be without depression and anxiety, I've been like this since I was 12.

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>>81656898
Namposting should be the new Baneposting.

>>81660447
But what is your silver spoon tax policy

>>81624397
I came into the thread to post this. It's on youtube.

>>81656898
the song is called some folkes airborne

>>81622907
Shame is a better movie for describing true loneliness

Virgins complaining that they can't relate to a hot guy who fucks lots of girls are missing the point - it's not about how many people you have around you, loneliness is internal

>>81660713
I have 20 "friends" and on the outside I am a normal person. But on the inside I feel terribly lonely and terrified. Sometimes I forget to keep a normal face and my teeth get all clenched and my mouth wide open and people ask if I am okay, I mostly just play it off
Loneliness follows me

>>81654645

Patrician slasher

Are you serious? Why do /r9k/ autists idolise travis? Did you see how he approached betsy? Not a single one of you socially stunted fuckwits could pull that off

>>81660612
TOGETHERRRRRRRRR WE'RE GONNA FIND OUR WAY
TOGETHERRRRRRRRR TAKING THE TIME EACH DAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk91ymiO3iA

>>81660863
>Why do /r9k/ autists idolise travis?
Damaged goods, habitual liar, only sees the negative side of life, forces himself to witness the all the filth on the streets, shitposts in his diary (proto imageboard), and secretly all he wants is to belong and be a normie

>>81660633
>watching movies on Youtube

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>>81660713
>Virgins complaining that they can't relate to a hot guy who fucks lots of girls are missing the point - it's not about how many people you have around you, loneliness is internal

>>81660831
>I have 20 "friends"

>>81654653
Ass hole moron who was average at folk music. Had enough friends to mooch constantly off of. If 'lonely', only because he (rightly) hates himself.

manchester by the sea

loneliness and self-hatred

>>81660681
SOME FOLKS AIRBORNE MADE TO CRASH THE PLANES
OOH THEY WEAR CARGO PANTS AND BLUE
AND WHEN THE BANE SAYS 'FOR YOU'
OOH YOU AREN'T LISTED ON THE FLIGHT PLAN

IT AIN'T ME, NO IT AIN'T ME, AIN'T NO BIG GUY IN CHARGE
IT AIN'T ME, NO IT AIN'T ME, I DON'T FEEL IN CONTROL

>>81661504
Oh stop it anon
>>81661211
Useless post, atleast you got dubs
Check em

>>81622958
(You)

>>81659879
what scumbags do you mean

Shit they got the REEEE sociopath stereotype right years before we could congregate here

>>81662541
Tech changes, politics change, fashions change

People never change. Cervantes's Don Quixote is literally taxi driver for the 17th century.

>>81662513
Drug dealers, thieves, men hitting their girlfriends, all the kind of scum you can imagine being at an international airport

>>81660831

> Lonely

> 20 friends

Eat shit

>>81662897
normalfag detected
nice spacing

>>81647040
Maybe it's because you're a salty NEET that you don't realise but it's a fucking horrible situation to be in. Having everything you need yet still stuck in depression. If you're depressed because you've got nothing then you can strive gain whatever you're lacking and better yourself, but if you've already got all that then you're pretty fucked. Dead in the water without an oar.

>>81656457
>4chan has made me examine myself with an eye that i've never had. I look past the cheap laughs and focus on the educated answers.

THey're really few and far between though.

I'm not going to argue that Taxi Driver isn't about loneliness, but people on here are confusing lonely with alone.

They're different.

>>81654653
>Eraserhead
nah this movie is about the 1000's people who never make it who we never hear about, we only hear about the successes, the dylans

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Travis was a racis-

>>81624879
I screen grab this post, one of the smartest things someone has ever written on this board.

>>81664724
screen scrap*

>>81624879
>never be fixed

You're not giving us much hope.

>>81664186
Many anons are alone and lonely though, have you ever read Notes from Underground?

>>81664186
I think it's more that it's better to be either one rather than both at the same time.

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This is still the most interesting scene in the film to me. When Travis starts talking about her colleague so negatively and says those ridiculous lines about him having the right to talk to her I can't help but wonder if she'd have actually responded the way she did and not being put off. Are we supposed to believe Travis is just good enough looking for it to not matter or would women actually find this endearing? Only time I've hit on a girl this directly were times I was too drunk to care, so this is entirely foreign territory.

>>81622958
True.
Actual non normie movies about Isolation are:
Le Samourai
Un Homme Qui Dort
...i dont know more examples to be honest, a lot of movies touch on that but I wouldn't say theyre necessarily about loneliness

>>81645701
No. Just no. Fassbender is in this Movie a successful Womanizer with friends who go out with him every weekend. It's a great movie, but only because the character has a porn addiction and is a man of few words doesn't make this movie a movie about loneliness and I guy that good looking with women THROWING THEMSELVES ON HIM are not lonely in any term. Travis is lonely, but Brandon isn't.

>>81665754
I can't get over this scene either. He's lonely to the point of being deranged but he has the balls to be this upfront about asking girls out.

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>>81624397
>>81644791
>>81660633
>>81625170
My fellow patrician posters

>>81623197
He's right

Women have life on easy mode. If a girl says she's "depwessed" "lonely" or "misunderstood" take what she's feeling and multiply it by .001.

>>81646962
Youre a pleb, Oh Boy is shit, it's just German so you think it's pseudo obscure but over here nobody considers it decent, it's pretentious as fuck

>>81666026
I always thought his loneliness pushed him to the point of working up the balls to walk in and ask her out

You can tell he had to work up the courage to, since he drove by her window multiple times before doing so

>>81666195
>all life boils down to is being able to get laid
You fucking r9k/pol expatriates.

You know, there are a lot of women who have legit problems and while I dont doubt that men in general have it harder in most situations, I also dont doubt that there are women truly suffering

>>81652909
He is clearly an experienced gun fighter who knows blood and death from first hand. He was in Vietnam.

>>81654581
Speak of myself: I was born.
My dad never had friends and it just happens that he met my Mom. They never taught me how to socialize well, so I ended up like my Dad, but even worse, because a child growing up while the Internet is booming among Normies and are not capable to hold a normal irl conversation... I was bullied, felt like shit and now I'm 24 and had never success or real friends in life. I live still at home because I think "It's the fault of you guys that I'm a loser, so at least take care of your failure".

>>81624397
Thanks for the recommendation, anon. I'm watching it now.

>>81666298
>all life boils down to is being able to get laid

No one said that except you you fucking faggot.

>>81666547
No, youre just constantly implying it. Its always about women being able to fuck whenever they like. You dont even realise how pathetic you sound.

>>81666195
Non-ugly women fucktard.

>>81666489
What you (and I) should've done is actively participated in nerd/geek fandoms before shit became mainstream.

>>81666582
It's not just sex

>easier to get employed
>easier to get into college
>easier to get welfare
>get attention constantly
>easier to make friends

And before you say
>"b-but that's just attractive women"

It applies to all women. All a female has to do is not be fat and wear makeup. Most can't even do that right

>>81665754
It's also the only scene where he is framed with another character on screen, while not looking at them through the rear view mirror in his taxi

Really makes you think

>>81665754

She is kind of intrigued and interested. Also because normally noone has the guts to ask her out. This completely fades when going to the movies though.

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There's not a single film out there that comes close to Taxi Driver. I see I Stand Alone mentioned a few times in this thread, but frankly, that recommendation is absolute dogshit.

Calvary, though, I think deserves a mention.