Seraphion Review of Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

Take a smaller case and expand to the bigger picture

[7/10 · 21 October 2015]

The movie begins relatively light by only focusing on mysteriously introducing about the focus victim's person, and then the ordeal he's been through. But then the movie expand and stretch the case to the bigger and relatively more grave matter of the subject. The movie takes the audience to the long detour in exchange of the enlightenment about the torture maltreatment and raising concerns about it. One thing great about this movie is that it didn't bother to shoot any actual reenactment since it already has strong materials in the archival photos, audio recordings and documents. Particularly the photos are indeed strongly harsh. Although they don't portray immediate violence, but they depict immediate stress and humiliation. The ending goes back very nicely to the smaller case just to show that it was such a wicked manipulation after all, all to uncover the serious mistake done by the government.