movies, music & stories
Driver Mika responds to a call from three drunken friends, one of whom is so drunk that he has fallen asleep. The other two are constantly arguing with each other and with Mika. They tell him why their friend is so drunk. He lost his job and car that day, his wife told him she wants to divorce him and his sixteen-year-old daughter turned out to be pregnant.
Night on Earth is a 1991 art comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.…
jim jarmush’s film from 1991 that depicts the lives of cab divers in 5 different cities at a given time on one night. In this episode an Ivorian driver drives two exuberant Cameroonian diplomats to their destination. They joke about the driver, who gets more and more angry about it, eventually puts his customers out of the car. His next customer is a blind woman. He would like to know what it is like to be blind, but their cultural differences and differences in life experience make it difficult for her to answer the questions.…
East German taxi driver Helmut Grokenberger receives the African-American young man YoYo as a passenger. Helmut was a clown by profession in his home country, but was less successful as a driver. He cannot handle the automatic gearbox and agrees to YoYo driving. YoYo picks up his sister-in-law and the two yell at each other and scold each other. Helmut, who has no family of his own, enjoys the family life he now experiences.…
Los Angeles segment Tomboy Corky (played by Winona Ryder) picks up Victoria Snelling (played by Gena Rowlands) from the airport. While Corky is driving, Victoria is arranging things over her phone. Gradually, Victoria realizes that Corky is cut out for the role as an actress she’s looking for. Corky refuses the film role because she aspires to a future as a mechanic.…
