{"id":155490,"date":"2015-10-08T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=155490"},"modified":"2015-10-08T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T17:04:09","slug":"taxi-movie-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/10\/08\/taxi-movie-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAXI<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kino Lorber<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for CompuServe ShowBiz. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director: Jafar Panahi<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screenwriter:\u00a0 Jafar Panahi<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cast:\u00a0 Jafar Panahi with rest of cast anonymous to avoid prosecution<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 9\/28\/15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opens:\u00a0 October 2, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America is not the world, as we may have noticed by the headlines.\u00a0 As imperfect as our democracy is with its threats of government shutdown (which makes you wonder whether democracy is the best form of government), our filmmakers can shoot what they\u2019d like.\u00a0 And isn\u2019t that the most important facet of \u201crule by the people\u201d?\u00a0 Not so in Iran.\u00a0 While filmmakers are restricted to certain subjects and certain manners of presenting their material, that censorship is not as bad as the way the Islamic regime inflicts capital punishment on people for the likes of homosexuality and simple robbery.\u00a0 While director Jafar Panahi takes aim on the inadequacies of Iranian law and how the government prevents human beings from expressing themselves (or even dressing themselves if you\u2019re the wrong gender), he gets around the government\u2019s ban on critical films by disguising them.\u00a0 Here Panafi poses as a taxi driver, apparently free from the house arrest he had been under for such works as \u201cThis is Not a Film,\u201d depicting a day in his life while in jail awaiting an appeals court verdict, and \u201cClosed Circuit,\u201d about a woman fleeing from the authorities who lands in the house of a secluded screenwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Panahi continues his modus operandi by once again depicting what looks at first like routine life in one day, as he drives a taxi with a camera on the dashboard as if he is filming cinema verit\u00e9, i.e. actual passengers who do not realize who this cab driver is.\u00a0 He is almost certainly scripting his latest movie.\u00a0 (We are not absolutely sure of this, since he refuses to list members of the cast for fear of government retribution for what he as screenwriter put into their mouths.)\u00a0 Each \u201cpassenger\u201d has something critical to say about the \u201csaintly\u201d powers in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>His cast provide comedy, sentimentality, and tragedy.\u00a0 A female schoolteacher argues with a man over Sharia law and wonders why so many people have to be executed for what she considers minor offenses\u2014if homosexuality can be in any way considered an offense.\u00a0 Most interesting, a TV bootlegger sells films of Woody Allen and various other Hollywood pics\u00a0 to a man who is a film student and who asks Panahi to recommend some.\u00a0 Panahi replies that every movie is recommended watching!\u00a0 The bootlegger, pretending to be working with Panahi, gets to sell far more pirated films by this fake association than he could do on his own.\u00a0 American movies appear to be out of bounds, or perhaps only the ones objected to by the government are verboten.\u00a0 Panahi\u2019s niece, who awaits her uncle to give her a ride, sounds off in a loud tones about her school day.\u00a0 Her teacher assigned her to shoot a short film but the movie must not include sad themes or anything dealing with politics or economics.<\/p>\n<p>Panahi is not allowed to leave Iran though you\u2019d think the Ayatollah would be happy to get rid of him, but think of what he could say if he could chill in America or Germany!\u00a0 \u201cTaxi\u201d won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, which the highest prize awarded at that annual event, and the FIPRESCI Critics\u2019 Prize (or F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de la Presse Cin\u00e9matographique). \u201cTaxi\u201d deserves accolades simply for Panahi\u2019s chutzpah in making it in a country that could come down hard on its critical filmmaker.\u00a0 Yet as a movie it is not all that interesting, coming across as didactic rather than dramatic.\u00a0 One wonders whether its two prestigious awards would have been made if a similar film came out of the U.S. or Western Europe, where there are no restrictions on the creativity of director, scripter and cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unrated.\u00a0 82 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story \u2013 C+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Acting \u2013 B-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Technical \u2013 B-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Overall \u2013 B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ta.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ta.jpeg\" alt=\"Taxi - 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