it a film split up into five different section and each of these section follow a different taxi ride in a different city . we have an la one and a new york one and a paris one and a rome one and a helsinki one . we start off with the la one and with winona ryder play an obnoxious chain smoking rocker ( apparantly and at least she listen to rock ) who somehow manage to get a job a a taxi driver and give a ride to a casting agent . at first ryder be an annoying and obnoxious and juno like character ( except she swear and doesn not talk about argento ) but then we suddenly learn that she isn not all we see her to be . this section of the film elaborate on the idea that some people be who they be and and do not act any differently and but then we know this be never true because no matter who the person be and you get to know them and you see them a differently to how they act on first meeting . this should seem obvious and but a lot of people do not seem to think so and just like ryder character . when we discover what ryder want to do with her life and and about her character near the end of the segment and she really isn not the obnoxious girl she seem to be . it be a good beginning to the film and but it only get well from there . rewind the clock forty minute and jump on a plane down to new york . the new york section be duck perfect . a serious positive to this section . armin mueller stahl play the confused taxi driver helmut and who pick up a bum and can not drive for chit . so and the bum drive . it be mueller stahl acting and the characterisation and chemistry that make this segment so perfect . helmut be truly one of my favourite character of all time now . at first he just a confused foreigner who know nothing about america and but then we discover that and even though he be and he also a smart and happy guy who just love be who he be . this segment put a massive smile on my face . the paris segment too be a positive . some brutish look black taxi driver with a plaster on his head get ridicule by some rich guy in the back seat and kick them out and then mutter to himself and what a duck up day . it certainly be . even though he appear to be brutish and tough and he just seem like a normal and curious george who must take a lot of chit from people . it four in the morning when he kick the two guy out and and then he see a blind woman on the side look for a taxi . he pick her up and expect her to not give him any chit and but this notion instantly shatters when she act whorish to him . she not though and she just feisty . he doesn not react though and he just take it in . he question her and and be bemuse by her extreme intelligence . he go through a transformation in that journey . before and he be negative about all his customer and find flaw in them and but now he seem to see it all so differently due to a woman who can not see anything . it be silently perfect . the rome section be . crap . i entirely blame roberto benigni ( who i love in life be beautiful ) . his shtick just do not work in the slightest with the rest of the film . his crazy and rapid fire improv just bring the film down a hell of a lot and and be the reason i would not give the film a a whole a positive and which be a shame . i have no more to say . not good at all and and really there be nothing to it other than for benigni to show off how great his head be . the helsinki section be a positive and and be the absolute perfect way to end the film . a moustached taxi driver pick up a couple of drunk guy and one of them pass out and and the other two pretty masculine and overpowering . a few thing happen represent they grab the taxi driver by the throat and they moan about their pass out friend and how bad his life be and then end up in tear when the taxi driver explain how his life be far bad than that of the pass out guy . like the rest of the film and it really be impossible to explain it without see it for yourself and so all i can say be and get the film by any mean and watch the hell out of it . from taxi driver esquire cinematography with camera mount atop taxi swim through the street light of the world to the most unexpected character to come out of those we assume will be something else and it worth watch and could still be a positive .