Where there is oppression in "Taxi", there is resistance!

Alia 2022-01-18 08:01:46

Robbers talk to teachers about morals; women in car accidents want to lightly hurt her husband’s suicide note; dwarves who sell pirated CDs to “contribute to film dissemination”; students who read movie novels but still don’t know how to choose topics for short films; insist on being absent Elderly sisters who are worried about their lives when they go to Aliquan to release goldfish at noon; the ghostly niece in elementary school wants to make a short film but chooses a good theme, but it can't be shown publicly; young people knocking on the car window to sell pirated CD records The neighbor who was beaten but was too afraid to report the crime because the government had just hanged the two criminals who committed the crime of assault shared his story with the director; the director who was banned from filming was used as a taxi driver to continue his cultural career; his niece asked to pick up The scavenger boy who has not returned the money returns the money to the rich groom to ensure that the film he has shot can be shown publicly; the girl who was arrested for watching a volleyball game chose to go on a hunger strike to protest, and the police had to induce evidence that there was no hunger strike; for The cute lawyer who speaks to the public is threatened to revoke his license by the Law Society; the last filming of the little girl, shaking the childish scenes, under the pretext of the previous plot, is like a person who is overwhelmed by the real status quo. In the form of a pseudo-documentary, the film reflects the people's resistance to cultural activities under the confinement of ideas. The psychological appeals urgently need to be expressed strongly, and the social problems urgently need to be exposed. The rose in front of the car window, the stop-frame picture of the car parked in front of the railing, seems to be holding a simple funeral for the imprisonment of the mind, and also like saying that the kind and upright people will take the bright and thorny roses to every corner. A wonderful movie like a director will eventually spread to the world! Taxi drivers should be the ones who know their country best!

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  • Rachael 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    [Exhibition at China Film Archive] One person, one car, one fake documentary, watching the human feelings in Tehran, and explaining various issues in contemporary Iran: the death penalty system, the status of women, pirated films, religious beliefs, film censorship, and judicial injustice. Under the circumstance of being banned from filming, Jafar Panasi inherited the creative method of Abbas' film "10", insisted on creating and speaking under extremely limited and harsh conditions, which is worthy of admiration. In the movie, it is the director and the lawyer who play themselves. Behind the creation, it is the U disk hiding the film transnational transmission, the niece receiving the award, and the female lawyer being sentenced to prison. It is the film that shines into reality, and it is reality that shines into the film.

  • Jerry 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    This new work of Jaffa is a movie that has once again come to life after "This Is Not a Movie"; the film blurs the boundary between reality and fiction, and to a certain extent is the "survival of the image." As for the many ideas derived from the discourse of this film based on China's national conditions, it is within reason. Electronic wills, goldfish renewal, DVDs sold by pirates, maidens read censorship regulations, and musicians independently issue CDs, all penetrating the media, which is extremely enjoyable.

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Taxi quotes

  • Jafar Panahi: Those films are already made, those books are already written. You have to look elsewhere, you have to find it for yourself.

  • Jafar Panahi: I think all movies are worth watching. Depends on your taste.