oscaralbert Review of Taxi

Taxi (1931)

"Buck Gerard" is the sort of brazen NYC killer who would brag that he could . . .

[7/10 · 22 October 2019]

. . . gun down someone on Fifth Avenue in front of scores of witnesses, and that no jury would convict him of this overt crime! With TAXI!, the always eponymous Warner Bros. warn America that the USA always has included a populous encompassing a cancerous 43% "Basket of Deplorables" who have signed on the dotted line with "Old Scratch." Individuals of this ilk lack souls, consciences, or any civilized scruples whatsoever, and perpetually perpetrate outrages such as the Alamo, Pickett's Charge, Wounded Knee, San Juan Hill, Tulsa, Mississippi Burning, My Lai, Abu Ghraib, and the Big Rotten Apple Cab Wars, as depicted by Warner Bros.' prophetic prognosticators in TAXI. So what does Warner suggest be done with these demons shaped like humans, such as "B. Gerard," "M. McConnell," "L. Graham," or "D. Trump" himself? A best case, "no fuss, no muss" scenario could involved self-deportation, the renunciation of U.S. Citizenship, and permanent exile with a single change of clothes, which Warner depicts as Buck's original Exit Scheme A. However, the seers behind TAXI realized that this was too good of a fate for mob boss ringleaders such as Buck. Warner ultimately recommends that We Patriots of the (then far) Future simply shove this sorry lot of miscreants out high-rise windows, UNLESS it proves more convenient to Guillotine the Top 10,000 or so traitorous Red Commie KGB pawns for High Treason on Pay-Per-View live TV.