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fromThe Independent
5 days agoJodie Foster and the stalker who shot the president 'to win her heart'
Jodie Foster's role in Taxi Driver led to an obsessive stalker, culminating in an assassination attempt on the president by John Hinckley Jr.
Back to selectionLady, the titular lead of Olive Nwosu's neo-noir feature debut about a taxi driver's gradual solidarity with a group of Lagosian sex workers, possesses a piercing gaze. She's not scanning you as much as she is preemptively fending you off. In her red taxi she stalks the nocturnal streets of the largest city in Nigeria, very much her own person, the only lady cab driver in a city on the verge of revolution around eradicating gasoline subsidies.
Not everyone was ready for this soulful, tragic odyssey into violence and loneliness, with Robert De Niro starring as Travis Bickle, a cabbie who longs to wash the scum off the streets like a merciless rainstorm. He wants to do right but doesn't know how. The scarred Vietnam vet muses about assassinating a politician who represents the corrupt overall system to him, but he also becomes transfixed by a child prostitute (Jodie Foster),
She testified that she gave $20 to Khalili and that he told her he worked for the jail, a claim she said he would use to threaten her once they were alone together. She testified she wanted to get back to her two sons in Oakland but agreed to smoke marijuana a daily habit and drink wine with Khalili in a local hotel room.
Local man Conor had been out shopping for Christmas presents for his family in the early hours of Christmas Eve when he loaded a taxi full of his bags. However, in a brief moment of forgetfulness, Conor exited the taxi without taking the presents with him, only realising his error as the vehicle drove away. To make matters worse, the driver who brought him home was now finished for the night and would not notice the bag full of Conor's purchases until the next morning when he awoke for his shift. Thankfully, there was enough Christmas cheer in the air for the driver to decide to bring the gifts to Store Street Garda station in the hope Gardaí could trace the owner.
Watch classic 1980s movies like "Dirty Dancing" and "The Goonies" on Netflix this October. There are also other hits available like "Taxi Driver" and "Point Break." The Netflix original movie "The Woman in Cabin 10" starring Keira Knightley premieres later this month. October isn't just spooky season - with the arrival of some classic movies on Netflix, it's also time to brush up on some old favorites.