taxi driver

Orpha 2022-03-20 09:01:16

Another movie with a taxi driver as the protagonist, and another typical Hollywood-style movie in which the good guys defeat the bad guys and embrace the beauty. It seems clichéd, but there are also some things that are worth taking out and savoring slowly.
From the beginning, Max used a long dialogue full of positive energy to relieve the lawyer's worries. He felt like the philosophical taxi driver in "Looking for the Hidden Happiness", a pure land of soul in the busy city. . When Vincent got in the car, there was another conversation full of thoughts, thinking that it would be a movie like Jaffa Panasi's "Taxi" that has taxis as a carrier to observe the state of society. But from the beginning of a corpse falling from the sky and smashing the car to pieces, the soft background music stopped abruptly. It was not until the end of the film that you realized that this was actually another interpretation of Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver."
Vincent, as a killer, a character on the side of evil, but with a heart of savior. After a cynical speech Max said, it completely aroused the heart of the petty citizen that Max had been hiding for a long time. From an early age, someone told you that as long as you keep working hard, your dream will always come true; see, if you work hard these days, your score will go up; don’t worry about the unreachable future, and do what you are doing. . Every day I feed myself a big mouthful of chicken soup for the soul. But the result? I have a sense of accomplishment just because I just relieved myself of a person's worries. I wiped the car brightly every day to welcome a new day. Every time I charge a fare, I write a note in the logbook, and I am one step closer to my dream. But what about the facts? The luxury car rental car dealers are far away in the record book that remembers the future. After 12 years of suffering, the mother can only tell a lie to others in the hospital but never did your luxury car once. It seems good to have a dream to work hard, to be a refuge against the huge pressure of reality, just like the 5-minute Maldives vacation. But Vincent's words exploded the refuge completely, and in the end nothing was done. Thinking of the past, it only felt ridiculous, but also feels good about myself, working hard for my dream, what a high-sounding reason, and still maintaining that ignorant conscience.
Max is not all the epitome of this fast-paced society, there are also some shining places. I made up a lie about hitting a deer, and at first I didn't know why he was so stupid to say that. But when he saw him make way for the two wild wolves, he felt that he was tall and tall. Vincent's eyes also changed at this time, making him feel that this man was still worth saving. Hitting a deer was perhaps the worst thing he could think of at the time. Show compassion for the weak, not bullying. It is not easy to maintain this kind of mentality in today’s high-intensity competition between the strong and the weak. There are already many people who are unscrupulous in order to gain the upper hand, but I believe Max will not. This is for sure and the most shining. The place.

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Extended Reading
  • Levi 2021-10-20 19:01:11

    The film obviously wants to show something more profound, but unfortunately it was not very successful, and it went back to the old routine.

  • Mason 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    one day? Will your dream come true? But when you dream back at midnight, you will find that everything has never happened, everything has passed by you, dreams will never come true, suddenly you are old and old, nothing happened, never will, because you simply Didn't try, the soundtrack is beautiful, the Foxx actor fan, the mouthful soup feels very different, the dialogue is very interesting, LA is beautiful,

Collateral quotes

  • Max: I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job!

    Vincent: Tonight it is.

  • Vincent: Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.

    Max: I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.

    Vincent: I didn't throw him. He *fell*

    Max: Well what did he do to you?

    Vincent: What?

    Max: What did he do to *you*?

    Vincent: Nothing. I only met him tonight.

    Max: You just met him once and you killed him like that?

    Vincent: What? I should only kill people after I get to know them?