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5. Feel the Insomnia

One of Travis Bickle’s defining qualities is his inability to sleep, an affliction that keeps him hovering somewhere between sleep and reality. That’s exactly what Scorsese was going for. He wanted to draw on film’s natural dream-like quality, by making viewers feel as though they were stuck in limbo somewhere between the real world and sweet, sweet sleep.

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