Signal Seven (1986)
Signal Seven (1986)
DVDRip | AVI | 608x352 | XviD @ 849 Kbps | English MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 96 min | 680 Mb
Genre: Art-house, Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 608x352 | XviD @ 849 Kbps | English MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 96 min | 680 Mb
Genre: Art-house, Drama
Director: Rob Nilsson
Writer: Rob Nilsson
Stars: Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant, John Tidwell
Filmed without sets and in available light, the plotless story follows a few cabbies pulling the night shift (Nilsson himself was a former taxi driver). They drive, encounter each other in their cabs, sit around the depot playing poker. The film has distinct sequences played out one after the other, making it feel as if different members of the cast (comprised of actor friends of Nilsson) had their own idea for a scene to be included – so we see an audition for an Odet play, a sequence showing the cab drivers and their fares, a couple of bull sessions around a poker table where stories and jokes are swapped, a two-character dialogue that strips layers off the machismo pretence reserved for everyone else, and a mostly wordless finale when we see exactly what/where one of the cabbies returns to after his shift is done. If there is any kind of order to the story it must be based on a short, pivotal moment around the halfway mark where the drivers respond to a ‘signal 7’, which is taxi shorthand for SOS, and the aftermath, where tempers, opinions, and emotions begin to flare.
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Signal Seven (1986)
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