A TAXI DRIVER 택시운전사 Is So Moving! | Movie Reaction | First Time Watch | Song Kang-ho

Vivian and Hayley watch A Taxi Driver, a South Korean historical action drama written by Eom Yu-na and directed by Jang Hoon. The movie stars Song Kang-ho (Parasite, Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer) in the lead role as well as Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong, Resident Evil: Apocalypse) and Yoo Hae-jin (The Pirates, Veterans, Space Sweepers).
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[@charleskim1904]

This is a real life story. The taxi driver had a cancer soon after the event,, and passed away. That’s why the reporter couldn’t find him. A son of the taxi driver, who saw the movie after the movie release, found that it was his father’s story, and informed the media and wife of the deceased reporter.

[@user-tk8dt5hj7f]

freedom is not free. korea is freedom

[@shaihulud6443]

I was junior school boy at that time. All mass-media lied to the korean people and the situation was more terrible compare to the movie. Now, military dictatorship is already over and finally, South Korea became a ture democratic free country. Now, my country became a advanced country. Before that, So many young people had to sacrificed themselves for my country. This movie is telling us a true sad korean history.

[@user-hq1qg6cj8d]

Historical fact: At the time of the incident in 1980, the United States goverment tolerated the movement of martial law troops to Gwangju for fear of North Korea invasion to South korea. After seeing the incident unfold, they were shocked. In 1987, protests spread nationwide again and the military regime tried to mobilize martial law troops again. so the United States threatened to move U.S. force to crush them down if that happens again, and democratization was accomplished finally.

[@IBgongjeong]

1987 movie reaction plz

[@moon-bro]

In Korea there is a saying, the brighter Song Kangho smiles in the poster, the sadder and scarier the film goes 😂

[@KyleS3m3noff]

There's an incredible trick during the massacre scene where tiny snippets of actual footage are spliced into the sequence. They're so quick and so subtle, yet somehow your brain instinctively picks up on them and recognises them, regardless. It put me over the edge in the theatre - lost it.

[@user-yc2hg4pq4s]

The May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising was a tragedy and a turning point that had a huge impact on modern Korean history. At that time, the military forces brutally massacred the civilians of Gwangju to seize power, and angry Gwangju citizens organized a citizen army and fiercely resisted. Although the uprising was suppressed by the rebels, the desperate sacrifice and resistance of the citizens of Gwangju became a valuable foundation for democracy in the Republic of Korea.

[@hyoseoklee3504]

Democracy is made with the blood and flesh of someone, my family, or myself. Don’t be intoxicated with your current freedom, but be aware of it.

[@harrietelizabeth9195]

The kdrama Youth of May is a romance in 1980 that ends during the Gwangju uprising. I highly recommend it, it's brilliant. I cried for hours after the last ep though so be warned.

[@U-Da-Hee]

The background of the film is in May 1980, and at that time, a soldier named Chun Doo-hwan led his forces, declared martial law, and took control of the country.

[@user-sd2es5hb2x]

헉 이걸 보시다니 감사합니다

[@lyn_minmay]

한국의 아픈 역사에 공감을 해주셔서 너무 감사드립니다!ㅜㅜ

[@user-yp4xl7dw7j]

Many scenes were adapted for the movie, but a real reporter said that the story of a soldier who sent a taxi to Seoul even though he knew about it was real

[@Panorama-memory]

I am Korean. People in the rest of the world didn't know about the Gwangju uprising during the military dictatorship. It was my father's time, and he said he didn't know about it, either. He just knew that North Korean troops had entered the Gwangju area and that there was a military operation going on, because that's what the military regime said, and that's what all the media said.

[@fayeslut]

A taxi driver was such a good movie. It's giving me a roller coaster emosion even tho I'm not Korean. And I'm never knew about Gwangju accident until Im watching this.

[@emilyhoran8164]

You guys so real for reacting this movie. The only youtuber that do one, bcs this movie is actually is a hidden gem. Hope more reaction for this. Crying again btw

[@user-li5fe6nz2g]

이얘기의 뒷이야기가 영화 1987입니다!저기자의 촬영영상이 전국으로 퍼졌을때 전국민이 분노한사건이였고 군사독재에서 벗어나 민주주의의 시발점이된 가슴아픈 역사입니다!

[@rasillchoo]

Thank you for sharing this film. I am from Gwangju and my parents have lived here their whole life. I remember my mom telling me that she was in middle school and was happy not to go to school but had to go down to the basement with a thick blanket to protect her from bullets. My grandmother was trying to protect her house because the soldiers were going up to the top of the building and trying to shoot the civilians, so she shouted, 'If you want to occupy this building, shoot me and do it.'

[@user-yc2hg4pq4s]

I recommend the movies <The Man Standing Next>, <12.12 the days>, <The Attorney> and <1987 : when the day comes>. You can feel the continuity of the times.