Movie: Taxi Taxi 《德士当家》

• Reliefdriver4u

  28 Dec 12, 09:11

  Movie: Taxi Taxi 《德士当家》

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  Taxi! Taxi! is a social comedy set in the metropolitan city-state of Singapore, told through the encounters of two characters who are in what is widely perceived as the most sociable profession on the island – taxi drivers.

  Inspired by famed blogger Dr Cai Mingjie’s real life accounts as a taxi driver in his bestseller “Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore’s Most Educated Cabdriver”, the movie follows the trials and tribulations of a retrenched microbiology scientist, Professor Chua, as he turns to taxi driving after several failed job attempts.

  

  Along the way, he befriends (although they didn’t quite start off as friends from the get-go) a veteran taxi driver, Ah Tau. The two men, who appear to be polar opposites of each other in every aspect from educational levels, personalities, attitudes toward life and even the languages that they speak, eventually find themselves interdependent and influencing each other in ways that they probably had never imagined possible.

  

  A fish out of water, Professor Chua gradually learns to move out of his comfort zone and sheltered life in the research lab, and adapt to the real world on the streets of Singapore. Yet, his biggest challenge of all, has to be: breaking the truth about his change of profession to his uninformed family – his social-conscious mother-in-law, his elitist son who idolizes his career as a scientist, and his wife whom he vowed to never let her have to worry about the bread and butter issues throughout their marriage. Can he hide it from them forever? And will they still respect him as head of the house if he reveals it to them?

  

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  犹 如�下平阳的�虎，蔡�士从熟悉�安逸的科学研究所，沦�到陌生且瞬�万�的马路上讨生活，�实一大挑战。一��愿轻易�输的他，咬紧牙根，硬�头皮，慢 慢学习适应实验室以外的真实世界。然而，让他最棘手的问题，�是�自外头，而是�自家里。他该�该把自己转行的真相告诉家人呢？他那习惯看�起穷人的市侩 岳��崇拜科学家�爸的精英主义儿��以�自己曾誓言让她一辈��必为柴米油�问题而��的太太，能�接�他��德士�机的事实呢？他们还会把他当一家之 主�？他能瞒得了多久呢？

• Kenluc2000

  28 Dec 12, 09:24

  , 3 Jan to watch?? on bo
• AhGuan@ Sg

  28 Dec 12, 09:26

  Lets throw rental on 3rd jan bahz!!

   

• Wantaxi

  28 Dec 12, 09:58

  Originally posted by Kenluc2000:

  Originally posted by Kenluc2000: ">SMRT put poster of movie “Taxi, Taxi” big big on drivers net saying SMRT is main sponsor.. Bey hiao sponsor some free tickets/discount tickets for drivers … knn --------------------------------------- sory must repeat broadcast abv, Saw in earlier thread forumers wan to all throw rent on 3 Jan to watch?? on bo

  Bro u nvr get free tickets meh??? I got so dun anyhow say leh......wrong info la. Cos u slow hand slow leg.....all taken up liao

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  28 Dec 12, 09:58

  I saw the trailer... Quite funny wor~ Shld be going to watch...

  Btw, this movie not directed by Jack Neo rite? anyone know who is the director?

   

   

  Here's the link to the trailer >>

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbcxs_73ijo

• FireIce

  28 Dec 12, 10:12

  i sarpok drjiajia

   

  >kee chiew!<

   

   

   

  and gurmit has pretty nice chest hair yo

• Kenluc2000

  28 Dec 12, 11:01

  Originally posted by Wantaxi:

  Bro u nvr get free tickets meh??? I got so dun anyhow say leh......wrong info la. Cos u slow hand slow leg.....all taken up liao

  
  huh? walao
• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  29 Dec 12, 02:08

  Hokay... I'm back home from watching "Taxi Taxi"...

   

  Not really talking much abt TDs in general... but rather the lifestyle of a professor-turned-TD...

  Some may say it's proporganda to brainwash ppl thinking that losing job become TD is okay *blah blah blah*, but when u reflect abit, still got abit meaning la...

   

  Wont say die die must watch, but I'll say go for it if got time... At least better than Ah Boy to Men...

• FireIce

  29 Dec 12, 12:16

  tot next week then open

• FireIce

  7 Jan 13, 14:47

  good afternoon sir. 

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  7 Jan 13, 14:48

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  tot next week then open

  
  I watched GV sneak preview...

• FireIce

  7 Jan 13, 14:49

  i watched at GV city square mall 

  sadly, not the couples cinema