Everyone is a passer-by in this world. After meeting, they may never see each other again. Even if they meet, they will not recognize the other person as the original one. This may be the meaning of the director's choice of taxis as the basic element of the scene. In such an environment, it is easier for people to reveal their hearts without any scruples and vent their depression. In the middle of the night, the whole world outside is silent and listening to the stories in the taxi, both familiar and unfamiliar.
The first story: a "tomboy" taxi driver with a cheerful and unruly personality, likes the work of a mechanic that boys only do, loves to swear, and makes the taxi dirty. Although she is young and beautiful, she is the exact opposite of Xiaojiabiyu, a girl from a family. But I believe that after reading this story, everyone will appreciate and even admire this girl. She seems to be rough in her work, but she is polite and principled, full of expectations for the future, and like a normal girl, she also looks forward to meeting her "the one guy" and then forming a family to give birth to fat babies. She is very satisfied with her life and does not covet the olive branch that the actress scout gave her. Maybe in just a few short phone calls from the other party's car, she has already judged that what the actress scout is looking for may be pornography The heroine of the film or similar, although it looks more beautiful than driving a taxi every day, but those are youth meals, not what she wants. It is the girl's spirit of cherishing her current life and not compromising on life that makes the actress scout envious. At the end of the story, her partner called her, but she didn't pay attention, reflecting her own personality. Helpless and ashamed.
Second story: A black man was denied a ride several times until he met a taxi driver who was just starting out. The background of this driver is very strange. He floated from Germany to New York. He was a retired old "clown". He was helpless and had no family. But what about his true heart? I have been teasing the people around me all my life, but I have lost the real psychological world. The black man kept laughing at the driver's name like Helmet, maybe it was just a defense, presumably his own name yo-yo left no small trace in his life because of being laughed at, he just wanted to vent this depression. However, he seems to see the psychology of this old driver who has no relatives across the ocean, treats him kindly, and pays enough money to guide him, but he can only watch the old driver get lost in the metropolis of New York. Perhaps, he has already Lost all my life.
The third story: The male driver from Africa was ridiculed by the "big men" who were also Africans, so he ordered a passenger to be expelled and a blind woman was re-loaded. The performance of this blind woman surprised and admired the black driver: he could notice the prompts on the car and identify the nationality of the black person by listening to the sound. She can also perceive her beloved, memorize the fare of frequent taxis, and walk freely along the river. Its strong, independent, optimistic and cheerful personality attracts black drivers. After the driver reminded her to walk carefully, she collided with another vehicle. Sometimes blind people can see better than normal people.
The fourth story: the absurd driver, driving at night with sunglasses, full of illogical and unreasonable self-talk, exaggerated self-exaggeration, all the following actions seem to be marked with absurdity: retrograde one-way street, delusion He lived next door to Einstein and drank coffee with Shakespeare. He circled around when he was carrying the priest. He ignored the priest smoking a cigarette in the car and threw away the "No Smoking" sign, and then began to "confess" to himself. In his eloquent description of his disgraceful sexual history, the joy and excitement far outweighed the shame, and he was as "missing a rib" as his life said, until he had a heart attack that the priest said had a heart attack. sudden death. The driver took the priest to a bench outside the church, put on sunglasses for him, placed the priest as if he were still alive, and then walked away with peace of mind.
The fifth story: A man who had just been fired, a teenage daughter was pregnant, and had frequent domestic accidents was drunk and took a taxi home accompanied by two companions. The two companions chatted about the man's misfortune in the car, evoking more unfortunate experiences of the old driver. The two companions expressed their sympathy, then patted the buttocks and got out of the car to go home; the drunk man who was left alone was half asleep, and the old driver woke him up. Sitting on the snow, a friend passed by and just said hello. Is it that people are caring on the outside and indifferent on the inside? Or is the cruel life already making everyone struggling?
The whole film does not tell a complete and specific story, but intercepts the little words in life, outlines the joys, sorrows and sorrows in every corner of the world, and more bitterness. Occasionally amused by the plot, but also realize that the night of the earth should belong to a sweet dreamland, but there are still common helplessness and sadness.
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