Taeksi unjeonsa
A Taxi Driver
Réalisation:
Hoon JangScénario:
Yoo-na EomActeurs·trices:
Kang-ho Song, Thomas Kretschmann, Hae-jin Yu, Joon-yeol Ryoo, Hyeok-kwon Park, Gwi-hwa Choi, Tae-goo Eom, Min-hee Park, In-kwon Baek (plus)Résumés(1)
A down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South Korea. (Well Go USA Entertainment)
(plus)Critiques (2)
This is a story of true heroes for me. The Gwangju Uprising got deep under my skin after I read "Human Acts" by the ever popular writer Han Kang. Since then, this unfortunate event has become a very sensitive subject for me, and I want to learn more about it. Even though I know it will hurt. I've always been fascinated by how far human courage can go in the quest for freedom. And that's what A Taxi Driver is about. Plus, it confirmed for me that having Kang-ho Song in a movie means that quality is a given. No one would have been better suited to the role of a taxi driver.
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Excellent illustration of Korean film art, where a rather unremarkable film turns into a record of one of the most terrifying events in Korean history, which surprisingly didn't come from outside, but from within. The escalation of the film is almost unreal, towards the end you won't even want to watch in some places. A very powerful experience.
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