Taxis appear in the streets and alleys of the city every day, witnessing the various conditions of the city. Although each passenger has a short time in the car, if all passengers are added together, they will see a complete life; although Everyone has their own entanglements, but together they are the epitome of the contradictions in the whole society.
Iranian director Jafar Panasi used the perspective of a taxi to tell the contradictions of the city and even the whole country, and won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2015. Regrettably, due to the Iranian government's film censorship system, he was placed under house arrest and could not receive the award in person in Berlin; in order to prevent the implication of crimes, the film did not show the cast list at the end.
I have seen an Iranian movie "Little Shoes" before, and I was deeply impressed. This time, "Taxi" is also wonderful. In addition to its unique perspective, the movie's performance is very natural, without showing any traces of performance, and it even makes people suspect that it is a real passenger getting up and down; The coherence of the story also benefits from the director's editing technique, which seeks for the coherence of the story among different people. Even though I only watched these two films, I was in awe of Iranian films.
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