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
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
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.
00:09:28 finding that photo evoked memories
00:12:09 You mean Fujimori? - Yes.
00:15:48 I can't survive. I have a lovely family.
00:18:58 This is the living room. We can open the shutters.
00:22:07 I want to ask you something.
00:24:39 Then I played in "The City and the Dogs".
00:27:45 I only want to sell one. Or two?
00:30:52 They keep us poor.
00:33:56 When I was a student, we laughed at the PIPs.
00:36:26 and keep the car for myself.
00:40:16 His son was about 34. A grown man.
00:44:51 I learnt to chew coca with chocolate.
00:49:15 Are you free there?
00:52:33 and blood tests every month.
00:55:11 That we wanted to keep her with us.
00:59:33 You can even drive in your sleep.
01:02:40 Especially when he drinks.
01:05:31 That's how I cope with life.
01:08:47 I'm going to Trujillo and not coming back
01:12:13 You can't mix water and oil.
01:15:40 I love you so much
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed745
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:09
Final line01:15:40
Production Record
DirectorHeddy Honigmann
LanguageDutch
IMDb votes217