「Is this really a good movie?」パリタクシー　詠み人知らずさんの映画レビュー（感想・評価）

The story is about an elderly lady who calls a taxi and crosses Paris to enter a nursing home. Recently, I've seen some lukewarm movies that don't look like French movies at all. I think the filmmakers wanted to dispel the image of Paris as a dangerous city with frequent terrorist attacks by touring the city's famous sites ahead of the 2024 Olympics. Even so, when a taxi driver who had been warned about his license suspension ran a red light and an elderly lady saved him, the ending was obvious when they didn't charge her the taxi fare.

So, what was good about this movie?

The relics of the last war are found. In Paris, relics of the war are engraved on plaques all over the city. Even on the subway platforms. First of all, if you go to the countryside, the names of all the soldiers who went to war from that village and didn't return are engraved on the walls of churches. I remember being surprised that the lines were much longer in World War I than in the last war.

The elderly lady seems to have fought for women's rights. In France, women were granted the right to vote late. However, it was surprising that they could not even open a bank account without their husband's permission. This is a stark difference from Japan, where women, who are socially weaker, hold the purse strings at home. Even so, I think the old woman's behavior when she was younger was a little bizarre.

One of the characters gets caught up in the Vietnam War. However, Vietnam was a former French colony, and wasn't France the indirect cause of the Vietnam War, including the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

What surprised me most of all was that a famous Japanese director has chosen a popular actor to make a remake of this film. Oh là là!