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Yes, thank you, golden child, even Travis, even in 1970s NYC, would know better.
The scene is a plot device taken too far.
The pacing required to tell the whole story in the alloted time demanded that Travis & Betsy get together and then are split up very quickly. Scorsese chose the graphic and symbolic way to handle the issue to do it with great economy of screen time as opposed to exploring a bit more of a protracted psychological storytelling angle.
The film is great, don't get me wrong.
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