Well this is a pleasant surprise.
You may have missed it if you’re currently waking up from a coma but Western culture is having something of a moment with regards to how it portrays law enforcement in fiction. A moment that’s come about for no particular reason (incidentally #Blacklivesmatter) but has nonetheless made writers question if too often they portray the police in a positive light. Be it as hypercompetent sleuths, brutal anti-heroes or just lovable goofballs.
So, imagine what it felt like to watch 1998’s Taxi. A timely reminder that what we think of as ‘Western culture’ is not a monolithic entity. That there are in fact entire countries happy to portray the police as incompetent, over-militarised authority figures and the public as just the good-natured bystanders caught up in their antics.
Appropriately then Taxi positions as its hero a cocky young cab driver named Daniel Morales...
You may have missed it if you’re currently waking up from a coma but Western culture is having something of a moment with regards to how it portrays law enforcement in fiction. A moment that’s come about for no particular reason (incidentally #Blacklivesmatter) but has nonetheless made writers question if too often they portray the police in a positive light. Be it as hypercompetent sleuths, brutal anti-heroes or just lovable goofballs.
So, imagine what it felt like to watch 1998’s Taxi. A timely reminder that what we think of as ‘Western culture’ is not a monolithic entity. That there are in fact entire countries happy to portray the police as incompetent, over-militarised authority figures and the public as just the good-natured bystanders caught up in their antics.
Appropriately then Taxi positions as its hero a cocky young cab driver named Daniel Morales...
- 7/15/2020
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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