I really don't understand the hate comments. The way I see it, "Taximetristi" behaves like an impressionist novel: we only experience a brief, raw sequence in the complex lives of the characters. Details about their lives are gradually unraveled to the viewers and we have to assemble the puzzle ourselves while only being given one small piece at a time (like learning about the hardships and the broken relationships of the characters). It captures perfectly the "hood" life in Bucharest and the way in which different characters adapt to it (with raw, unfiltered words and intentionally obnoxious behaviours). The film is intense, with moments of laughter and deep sadness, and manages to make us, the viewers, feel like passengers in a taxi: we get into the car not knowing anything about the driver, then find out a series of diverse and intriguing pieces of information about the driver's personal life, with joys and sorrows, and after we reach the destination and exit the car, we move on towards our homes and our own lives. But even so, we can't stop wondering about how the driver's life will turn out to be, and most probably we will never know (such as Liviu's relationship with Veronica). There is also an overall irony concerning Lica's life: he goes from bragging about seducing a policewoman to deeply regretting the end of his former relationship, and he goes from making fun of a gay person to begging another gay person to have a beer with him so that he could stop thinking about his misery and loneliness, even for a moment. This is "Taximetristi".
Review of Taximetristi
