Metal and Melancholy
1994 · 80 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 217 VOTES · DIR. Heddy Honigmann
Overview
This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.
Dialogue Timeline — 745 lines
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00:00:09 The Uruguayans are leading 1-0.
00:03:37 What job do you do? - Medical publicity.
00:06:50 I do that every day.
00:09:33 of that far-off time
00:12:12 We spread the word like an underground river.
00:15:53 Whose is the shoe? - My youngest daughter's.
00:19:17 That's what I studied.
00:22:14 You know the situation is very difficult here.
00:24:48 Yes. Made by Lombardi.
00:28:06 The middle classes have gone downhill.
00:31:06 Sod off.
00:34:07 That must have been in '75? - No, earlier.
00:37:43 Don't you want a new one?
00:41:12 and two other terrorists.
00:45:10 Some mothers made their children work when they were 13.
00:49:37 You feel free of tension.
00:52:53 Yes, exorbitant.
00:55:34 At a certain point...
01:00:35 Then I became pregnant, unfortunately.
01:03:06 He can't see I'm father and mother to my child...
01:06:45 A portrait. Why not?
01:09:29 You and the car are one.
01:12:47 She didn't want to get in. I had to come with her.
100:01:05 of nuts...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed745
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:09
Final line100:01:05
Production Record
DirectorHeddy Honigmann
LanguageDutch
IMDb votes217