He threatens to shoot Jae-sik if they do not give the recording. After escaping the army, Peter drops the cap and Jae-sik goes to pick it, only to be taken hostage by an someone in the army. Despite all of it, Peter continues filming. They go into the university where it is burning and filled with smoke. Kim, Peter and everyone else sees a blast. A newspaper is printing out what really happened when their boss arrests everyone inside. Peter gives Kim the money to fix, but Kim throws the money away and the two start fighting until Kim is slammed into the car. They meet Hwang Tae-sool, a kind-hearted driver who tries to fix their car. All of them run with the army on their heels. Despite Kim trying to pull Peter away, he stays there and continues filming. There are thousands of people protesting, and soon the army arrives and beats anyone that is in their way. They refill the gas and after that, Jae-sik, Peter, and Kim all go up a building for Peter to film.
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When Peter gives Kim the 100,000, the other taxi drivers there angrily snatches it away, then Kim gives Peter all the money he gave Kim. He brings her to the hospital, where she finds her son. They welcome him, but Kim runs away, only to find a extremely worried and tired old lady. When Peter is talking in English, the students send in Jae-sik to talk to him. Using trickery they manage to get through (despite Kim protesting that the army has sealed them off.) They arrive and see a truck of students. Upon hearing that he can get $100,000 Kim quickly drives over and takes him to Gwangju, where the army is guarding. Meanwhile, German reporter Peter is talking and decides to go to Gwangju to see what is happening as no word is said about it. He goes home and sees his daughter waiting for him.
He sees a pregnant woman and sends her to the hospital at her request. He sees many people protesting, and a tear grenade is fired. The movie starts with Kim Man-seob drives his way in a college.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. As time passes the situation grows more and more serious, and Man-seob keeps thinking of his young daughter at home all alone. But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named HWANG (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul.
There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Although stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he'll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won - enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true. And that made me like it more - it was quite accurate and it was interesting.A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him. I learned later on that A Taxi Driver did deviate from the actual story but not as much as Juror 8 did. On the contrary, A Taxi Driver was compelling enough for me even before I researched on how close it was to the real story. I was disappointed to learn later on that Juror 8 was very loosely based on the real story and yet it was not able to make the movie compelling enough, given all the freedom they had to change things in the story. Man Seob stayed with Jurgen until he safely boarded his flight back to Japan to tell the world about the atrocities happening in Gwangju.Īfter watching this film, I can finally articulate what I found problematic with Juror 8. They tried their best to evade the soldiers running after them. The two took different routes to avoid numerous checkpoints. A Taxi Driver tells the story of a German reporter Jurgen Hinzpeter (Thomas Kretschmann) who hired a taxi driven by Kim Man Seob (Song Kang Ho) to take him to Gwangju so he can report on the on-going uprising there.
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