Buy A Bad To Do Good : Travis Bickle

I first encountered Martin Scorcese work in my first year in uni. The movie lingered in my mind for weeks, it's bleak. I kept asking if Travis is alive in the end or he is dead? The movie is depressing, angry and bleak. Yea....that's the word...BLEAK.

Travis decided he had enough and goes against all the SCUMS and blasted his way through. Is he a bad character or a good one? We cant pin point where he is heading, no clear cut answer - which to me, its beautiful.

Just like Walter, just like Jack De La Motta, just like Jules - all of them in the end of the day, choose and take full responsibility of their actions which is DO.

No procrastination, no sembang kedai kopi and no IF's......they simply DO.

Bickle drops his .44 Magnum and guns Sport down with his snubnose, which Bickle kept in his right hand, while the .44 Magnum was in his left hand. Bickle begins to advance only to have the wounded bouncer attack him while going up the stairs. 

Iris' client, a Mafioso, overhears the previous gunshots; he sneaks up behind the distracted Bickle and shoots him in the arm. Bickle kills the mafioso and the bouncer, and then turns the gun on himself, but finds that his ammunition is spent. Severely injured, Bickle collapses on Iris' couch. When the police arrive, Bickle stares at them and smiles, pointing his finger like a gun at his head.

Travis, mixed media on canvas, 2015