This is one of those rare occasions where I will say: "If I could give it ten stars I would." Simply put, movies do not get better than this.  The only other movie that I think can compare to this is Shawshank Redemption, as far as greatness goes.  What movie can show what happens to a man who is alone for too long better than this?  On television today you have a thousand stations all broadcasting the same politically correct agenda, over and over until the wheels fall off.  Put on this movie when you need the anti-thesis to all of that.  Perhaps in yesteryears, their was no need for "a guy who would not take it" so much, because there were simply more of them around.  But if you ask me, in today's world, Travis Bickle is a Saint, not a sociopath.  The real sociopaths all have their own shows on the helevision now.