Taxi Driver - Todorov's Theory

Taxi Driver

Equilibrium
Travis Bickle is a lonely man in New York, who works as a Taxi Driver.







Disruption
The Taxi Driver picks up a young girl named Iris in his taxi. However he discovers she is a child
prostitute and thinks she may be in trouble.






Recognition
Travis discovers that Iris has gone missing, which upsets him as
he had struck up a friendship with her. He goes to her pimp and 
gets the location of where she has been taken.











Repair
Travis becomes a vigilante - buys a gun and sets off to rescue Iris from her captors.




New Equilibrium
Travis finds and kills her kidnappers. He enters the building where she is being kept and after he kills the guards in the building, he finds Iris locked up. The police find Travis and he is taken to hospital. When he returns he is hailed as a hero and Iris is returned to her family.