Taxi Driver Personality Disorder

Taxi Driver is a 1970’s movie written by Paul Schrader, directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring Robert De Niro as the main character Travis Bickle. This movie describes Travis as a schizotypal personality disorder trait who works as a cab driver in New York City. His mental illness has several thoughts including odd beliefs or magical thinking that influence behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms. Also, unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions, odd thinking, and speech, suspiciousness or paranoid ideation, inappropriate or constricted affect. His behavior appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar. Travis lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives. In the beginning of

That night when Travis first encounters Iris (played by Jodi Foster in a movie) she enters his cab and is pulled out by Sport, who tosses Travis a $20 bill to keep him quiet. Travis takes the money, but he leaves it on the front seat, separate from the rest of his cash. Subsequently, whenever Travis sees the folded bill, he remembers Iris, the filth of the city, and his own silence. For Travis, the bill symbolizes the city's corruption, where anyone can be bought, like a prostitute, for the right price. The money serves as a constant reminder of his own complicity in Iris's situation, and it eventually spurs him to action. He is ashamed that he took the money in the first place, and his shame motivates his later actions. When Travis visits Iris in her room, He doesn't have sex with her but just talks to her. he used that $20 bill to paid for his time with her. He returned the money to the man it came from in an attempt to atone for his previous inaction, the first step in his new role as Iris's liberator. His imagined that it needs to be cleaned up the city by him being the