Thanks for the *promote

There haven't been enough movies featuring racing cars, and even more so for F1. The French film Taxi (or taxi driver, or something like that) purported to have F1 cars, but they looked more like F3000 to me, there were a few others spread over many years... and then there's Rush and the Senna film all at once - life is good

Wasn't the Stallone one featuring Indy cars?

Joris Luyendijk - They're just like people (2006)

"
In People Like Us, which became a bestseller in Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East. Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers and terrorists, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors, and all of their families. He chronicles first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation, terror, and war. His stories cast light on a number of major crises, from the Iraq War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with less-reported issues such as underage orphan trash-collectors in Cairo.

The more he witnessed, the less he understood, and he became increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he saw on the ground and what was later reported in the media. As a correspondent, he was privy to a multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, and he saw over and over again that the media favored the stories that would be sure to confirm the popularly held, oversimplified beliefs of westerners. In People Like Us, Luyendijk deploys powerful examples, leavened with humor, to demonstrate the ways in which the media gives us a filtered, altered, and manipulated image of reality in the Middle East." -- amazon
http://www.amazon.com/People-Like-Us-Misrepresenting-Middle/dp/1593762569

I have no affiliation with the book, except to say I've read it and its amazing. Its brilliant at describing both the Palestinian and Israeli media extravaganza and what both sides do to get on the cover of time magazine. You'll be ashamed of the way our media forms us about the conflict and about the entire region and how wrong we all are.

I know taxi drivers in pusan drive as fast as hell, too. For no apparent reason. Scare the shit out of me. I just think it's a reflection of the fact that making a living is becoming very competitive there, do or die, like everything else.

Thank you for fixing it. >> ^shuac:

You forgot to supply the most important credit: Bernard Herrmann.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Taxi Driver, Suzanne Vega' to 'Taxi Driver, Suzanne Vega, Bernard Herrmann' - edited by shuac

I hope it does better than when I posted it. Have an ^Upvote^ & a thumbnail

http://videosift.com/video/Lamb-says-Yeah-Taxi-Driver-Edition

TAXI DRIVER edition!

No, no, this "non-Samaritan" attitude goes back centuries. It has nothing to do with modern notions of liability.

The Chinese culture is very different from Western culture. "Saving face" isn't a light topic there. Suicide to save the family's honor has been part of their culture, hasn't it? I'm not that well versed in the differences of the various Asian cultures.

Hari kiri is the Japanese equivalent, yeah? The most honorable way to die is to disembowel yourself with no assistance. Most chose to have a trusted relative or friend behead them so they died quickly -- after stabbing themselves in the gut. I learned all this from Hollywood movies and novels -- so maybe it is all a load of crap.

So I"m sticking with my plausible interpretation that it is POSSIBLE that this was orchestrated by the government. Maybe it was just the government taking advantage of a true kind impulse on the part of the taxi driver -- but they do control the media still, yeah?

Cynical. That's me!




In reply to this comment by longde:
damn, you are cynical!!! It's sad that some of the bad infrastructure in china make this story perfectly plausible.

I think this attitude has to do with the ease of liability being assigned to the helper. In this case, there is no way any reasonable person would think the cab driver was responsible for the girl's injury. As opposed to a driver stopping for an injured pedestrian.>> ^bareboards2:

Here's another topic missed by this video --
Remember when that little girl got ran over by a truck and everyone walked by? The only person who went to help was a very poor woman?
Apparently there is a culture in China of NOT helping others. What I read at the time was if you help someone, then you become responsible for them. Which is why only the very poor woman went to help -- she had nothing to lose.
The Chinese government has been attempting to change that culture, in part by changing laws (I think. Didn't I read that somewhere?)
Here is how calloused I have become -- I thought for a moment (and I still sort of do) that this was a set up by the Government. A visual campaign to educate the public. They made the guy a hero, showed how the government has the services to help. The hole in the pavement was too weird, as noted here, people crowded around the hole with zero concern that more would give way. They didn't interview the girl at all, didn't show her face.
It's not a bad thing, to attempt to create a Good Samaritan culture in the face of thousands of years without one. I am just cynical about the feel-goodness of this clip.
Calloused. I am calloused.

We're missing something here - a good Samaritan did something heroic. All jokes aside, this man is a hero to this young girl.

Well done Mr. Taxi Driver!

I just have to say, here in North America, it's hard enough to get taxi drivers to stop for paying customers...

>> ^budzos:

>> ^EMPIRE:
>> ^budzos:
China seems to do nothing to help, or turn everything into an epic clusterfuck. Notice the pointless ropes tied to the top of the ladder. The taxi driver gets tangled up in them as he comes out of the hole.

then you must have had your eyes closed. I certainly understood what was the point of the ropes, and there was a good reason for them to be there. look at the video more carefuly.

I'm not smart enough to understand the point of the ropes. Please explain it to me.


"The ladder was flimsy and moved around a lot." They were steadying it but keeping their bodies out of the way from that side.

If you look closely, you can see the ladder is not actually leaning against the rim of the hole, because it's very uneven, and the ladder would be completely unstable and almost sideways. There is a guy pushing against the stair to keep it away from the ledge, and the 2 ropes are there to help the guy just in case he gets tired or his hands slip, so the ladder wouldn't fall with the taxi driver and the girl trying to climb it.

Could the guys holding the rope have placed themselves a little to the side? yes of course, but there is a point to the ropes.

Weight of the ladder could have caused the hole to expand making them fall back in as they climbed out.

>> ^budzos:

>> ^EMPIRE:
>> ^budzos:
China seems to do nothing to help, or turn everything into an epic clusterfuck. Notice the pointless ropes tied to the top of the ladder. The taxi driver gets tangled up in them as he comes out of the hole.

then you must have had your eyes closed. I certainly understood what was the point of the ropes, and there was a good reason for them to be there. look at the video more carefuly.

I'm not smart enough to understand the point of the ropes. Please explain it to me.

>> ^EMPIRE:

>> ^budzos:
China seems to do nothing to help, or turn everything into an epic clusterfuck. Notice the pointless ropes tied to the top of the ladder. The taxi driver gets tangled up in them as he comes out of the hole.

then you must have had your eyes closed. I certainly understood what was the point of the ropes, and there was a good reason for them to be there. look at the video more carefuly.


I'm not smart enough to understand the point of the ropes. Please explain it to me.

>> ^budzos:

China seems to do nothing to help, or turn everything into an epic clusterfuck. Notice the pointless ropes tied to the top of the ladder. The taxi driver gets tangled up in them as he comes out of the hole.


then you must have had your eyes closed. I certainly understood what was the point of the ropes, and there was a good reason for them to be there. look at the video more carefuly.