The platform shoes
Posted by io007a
What was the significance of the shoes? They made him think about something but I'm not sure what. Please help.
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postgr
Are you referring to the shoes a lot of the women were wearing, or specifically the shoes Iris was wearing? I'm not sure there's any symbolic meaning in either case. I was a kid at the time, but I remember very clearly that those platform shoes were very popular in the mid-70's.
Taxi Driver
Released: February 09, 1976
Synopsis:
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.