I don't like to drive, and I don't like to take the bus, so renting has become my second favorite mode of transportation.
But in the vast sea of shadows, there are not many films with taxi drivers as the protagonists. As far as I can remember, there is only "Li Mi's Conjecture" in Chinese films.
The most famous movie about taxi drivers is called "Taxi driver". This movie has a prominent place in the history of movies, but I didn't see the good point. Impatient classmates are likely to watch it. To fall asleep, so it is not recommended.
What I want to introduce today is a Hollywood blockbuster with both good looks and depth: "The Sunset Kills God".
The background of the film is Los Angeles, the city of angels. Max, the male protagonist, is driving a taxi at the airport. By chance, he finds a beautiful lawyer and starts the first journey of the film.
In this short ride, the actor played a taxi driver:
He is extremely conceited about his professional ability, and he has to insist on his own opinion on the issue of route rather than death:
In the end, it turned out that Max's choice of route was right, and the female lawyer had to be amazed at his professional ability.
Max seemed very proud and began to talk about his dream. Like most taxi drivers, he was unwilling to do this job. He repeatedly emphasized to the female lawyer that driving a taxi was only a stopgap measure for him. He dreamed of opening a luxury business. Car rental company, specializing in movie stars.
Max reminds me of the drivers who have carried me in the past.
One time I took a taxi in Shanghai, and there was a Taxi in front of me when I was waiting for the traffic light. Maybe because a novice was on the road, the driver in front didn't start after the green light came on. The old driver next to me was angry and honked his horn, scolding as he pressed it:
"Book Na, just open the pen and wipe your head."
(Damn, look at this stupid and drive a taxi)
It's really funny to say this from the mouth of a taxi driver.
There are many more scenes of this kind of dumbfounding, but then I gradually understood them.
Taxi drivers may be the loneliest group of people. They read countless people every day, but no passenger considers himself a friend. Many passengers are willing to open their hearts to them because the taxi drivers are not in the circle of friends, and they will never see each other after getting off the bus. intersection.
Because of long-term sedentary and irregular diet, they are a high-risk group of prostatitis and gastritis, especially in cities such as Beijing or Los Angeles, which are famous for traffic jams. Driving a taxi is a job that tests human willpower.
As soon as Max and the female lawyer got into the car, they quarreled about the route. It was because LA (Los Angeles) was too congested, and they would step on the pit if they were not careful. Once they entered the pit, it would often be delayed for more than an hour.
Maybe because he didn't have confidence in himself, Max didn't ask the female lawyer to call her before getting out of the car. Even though the two of them had a good chat, even the female lawyer's favorable impression of him was obvious.
The moment his sweetheart got out of the car, Max was extremely frustrated, holding the steering wheel and sighing constantly, regretting it too much.
Seeing this, I already understand that Max's dream is nothing but a castle in the air, because he is not an activist, and he is afraid to take the first step when meeting the girl he likes.
Fortunately, the female lawyer was an active person, she knocked on the car window and handed over her business card.
Max, who got the business card, was not ecstatic, but seemed tangled. If there were no subsequent events, I don't think he would have the courage to make this call.
While hesitating, a special guest got into his car, completely changing Max's life trajectory.
His name is Vincent, and he's a killer.
He has silver hair, a gray suit, is unsmiling, clean and handsome, and is the type of passenger that taxi drivers love to pick up.
But after getting in the car, he was in great contrast with his image. He was more eager to talk than Max, and kept inquiring about Max's heart.
This made Max at a loss, so the audience saw a very rare scene:
The passenger grabbed the taxi driver and babbled, but the driver was struggling to cope.
However, Max could still bear it, and at most regarded Vincent as a noisy neighbor. After all, he didn't know that the passenger's occupation was actually the King of Hell.
But when he witnessed Vincent kill the first person, his heart collapsed. Of course, he didn't want to go into this muddy water.
The topic of chat between the driver and the passenger changed from traffic jams to murder, which made Max very uncomfortable. His hands shaking tightly on the steering wheel kept shaking, and he questioned Vincent while shaking:
Vincent chokes Max back in one sentence:
This is complete sophistry, whether you know the other party or not, killing someone is wrong, Vincent just caught the logical loophole in Max's language.
Along the way, Vincent quarreled with the driver and kept gossip about his heart, and by the way, he started to kill.
The silver-haired Vincent spoke a lot of cruel words, and every sentence pierced his heart:
Vincent uses verbal violence as skillfully as he kills: lethal moves, kills in ten steps.
Max, who was poked at the sore spot, was completely mad, stepping on the accelerator to the end and racing all the way, causing the car to roll over and another plot twist.
Vincent's remarks can be heart-stopping, precisely because every word he said is full of bloody reality.
In fact, from the very beginning, I knew that Max's grand dreams were unreliable, especially when he repeatedly emphasized that sentence:
Max is a perfectionist, and his taxis are neat and tidy, with all the licenses in good order.
But when it comes to life events, perfectionism brings him into a labyrinth. When he met the person he liked, he didn't dare to ask for a phone call. The girl took the initiative to hand over the business card and he didn't dare to contact him.
It's not that he doesn't like female lawyers, but he likes them so much that he feels that he is not worthy of her now. He has to wait until he realizes his dream before driving a Mercedes Benz before he is embarrassed to see her. Someone else embraced.
When happiness knocked on the door, he didn't dare to open the door. He had to go back to the bedroom and dress up to be perfect before he would meet people. Little did he know that when he hesitated, happiness was long gone.
As for his dream, it is a castle in the air.
"Either don't do it, do it perfectly." But in the 12 years of driving a taxi, Max has been stuck in the "or don't do it" stage.
Perfectionism imprisoned his feet, and "do it or do it perfectly" became his "or not do it" excuse.
In our daily life, we often see these friends. They dream at night, but they don’t go down-to-earth to build their dreams during the day. As Vincent said, ten or twenty years have passed in a flash on the sofa and potato chips TV. getting old.
There is only one true perfectionism, that is to be brave to do, to be brave to make mistakes, to make everything perfect through continuous improvement and optimization.
Fortunately, by chance, this time God forced Max to take the first step, because he found that Vincent's last target was his favorite female lawyer.
This time Max no longer hesitated, and immediately called the female lawyer. When the phone was out of power, he made a decisive decision and ran to the building where the lawyer and Vincent were located.
The moment Vincent took out his pistol, Max just killed it, he also held a gun in his hand and pointed it at Vincent.
During the confrontation, Vincent was still very disdainful of his driver:
Unexpectedly, Max pulled the trigger resolutely.
Although it only scratched Vincent's face, the intention of this shot is very obvious:
Terrible.
Max is a warm man. He will make way for wild dogs when he drives on the road, but now life forces him to take a knife.
After a life-and-death chase, Max, who was driven to the end, finally stopped hiding. He bravely stood up to face Vincent and started a blindfolded shootout with him.
In the dark, the taxi driver defeated the professional killer.
Vincent, who was about to die, still did not change his personality as a philosopher:
At the end of the film, the day has broken in LA, and Max and the female lawyer are helping them to the light. Will they have a follow-up story? I think it definitely will.
After experiencing such a disaster, he is likely to change his face for the rest of his life, and understand that in order to make things perfect, he must first take the first step of imperfection.
Max is not God's darling, his feet are imprisoned by negative perfectionism, but when a man puts a gun to his head and forces him to take one imperfect first step after another, he stumbles closer to his dream .
this is life.
I hope that my classmates will also be action-oriented on the road of life. Don't wait until someone points a gun at you before taking the first step.
Of course, if necessary, I can be the guy with the gun.
Don't worry, I won't actually shoot.
(END)
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