Dakota Johnson opens up to Sean Penn in Daddio, but the scenario is oddly familiar
Maybe it’s the metaphor. The transition, the feeling of getting caught in between two places while not really being in either one. Moving characters from Point A to Point B, internally and externally. There is room to grow in the back of a taxi. It’s difficult to convey an inner struggle on film when a character is alone.
Sure, Richard Linklater might climb into the back of a taxi in Slacker and immediately start talking about dreams and alternate realities to his cab driver, , and Martin Scorsese might hop into Robert De Niro’s cab in Taxi Driver with, seemingly, the express purpose of making De Niro’s Travis Bickle bear witness to the pain he experiences due to his wife’s infidelity, but this is more than a cinematic trope.
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