The movie "Taxi" by Iranian director Jafar Panahi is used very intelligently as a political vehicle to defy his government which banned him from making films and imprisoned him. The movie is a cry for help, an appeal for freedom and democracy. Panahi once again makes a movie where friends, strangers, and experienced actors mingle and sometimes improvise dialogues to show an Iran squeezed between the cultural traditions of the Western and Eastern worlds.
If one watches this movie unaware of the political and cultural persecution that Panahi is under will come across a movie without a guiding thread, resembling collages of the day-to-day life of a cab driver.
This brave movie will surely be part of Iran's cultural history.
If one watches this movie unaware of the political and cultural persecution that Panahi is under will come across a movie without a guiding thread, resembling collages of the day-to-day life of a cab driver.
This brave movie will surely be part of Iran's cultural history.