Summarize five stories
1. "The Life I Want" / "Sure, Mum!"
2. "Joker's Helmet" / "We Have the Same Hat"
3. "Invisible Skin Color" / "Out of Sight"
4. "Perish"/"Confession"
5. "The Same Path"
Five short stories with different styles, but all focus on the basic element in the city - the human soul. Most of these people are rough, and most of their souls are fragile, but I don’t know if they are forced to live or their dreams are still alive, or they may simply live by. They finally choose to continue their lives, struggling in the alleys in the middle of the night, drowning and even drowning in the neon of the city. in.
There are of course a lot of optimistic people out there, and to put it mildly, they have interesting souls. For them, even if happiness is not a sufficient and necessary condition, melancholy is never allowed to arise. The basic elements of these feelings make up the individual, and these individuals, as the basic elements of the society, make up the society, and no one can try to draw a line from it.
The taxi driver has seen too many such souls, and these souls never repeat. He even gradually becomes numb, taking orders to see off customers, and check out and collect money. "Whether to control the steering wheel" separates the two souls. Most of the time, the driver is the observer and the passenger is the observed. The driver observes the passenger to observe the breadth of society, while the camera observes the driver to discover the depth of the society. For these two souls, they got along for a short time, rarely communicated, and finally said goodbye, but I believe that during that journey, both souls were full and warm.
I guess Jarmusch in life must be a sensitive, gentle and a little neurotic person. He doesn't like grandiose works, and he is more willing to observe the subtleties. He aimed the camera at the group of taxi drivers, using a small format and a small narrative, focusing on description rather than expression, a bit of a new wave flavor. And for a moment, when the lights came on, the lights flashed through the car window, looking at the driver's eyes that seemed to be empty, I seemed to see Travis in "Taxi Driver".
I never think that many people are truly alone, but there is no doubt that most people need more or less comfort from time to time, just as a taxi driver needs a passenger, and a passenger needs a taxi driver.
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