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Anyone else like the little black humour moments?


Like the taxi driver beeping the horn and scaring the dogs away so they ran off or driving off before the drunks could puke in his car?

Or for Jacek when he scared the pigeons away deliberately to annoy the old battleaxe or flicked the drink at the little girls to make them smile?

And now I realise (thinking back on it) that the little girl by the window must have reminded him of his little sister as she was of similar age - although slightly younger.

I love little character moments in films - they tell you all you need to know about a person and are worth 10 lines of dialogue in my opinion!

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Yeah, I did laugh at the pigeons and the drink at the window. The bit with the taxi driver didn't really make me laugh so much, the taxi driver was an ass.

And what about the English tourist? I laughed at that aswell, don't know why, don't think it was supposed to be funny or really have any bearing on the film.

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He sounded American to me.

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Some of them were kind of smile-worthy, although they weren't really meant as black humor. There were meant to dig deeper into the actions of the characters. The Taxi Driver in particular was used to show that his jerk actions lead him step by step to his death. From leaving the couple who waited for him to not picking up the drunk, his was presented with many opportunities which would have taken him out of the young man's path. If he took the couple he likely wouldn't have ended up picking him up; if he took the drunk he would have already had a fare at the time the young man gets in the cab. By being a jerk to all the people he did throughout the movie he avoided the escapes presented.

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i laughed when he pushed the whistling guy pissing next to him into the urinal or trough



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"I love little character moments in films - they tell you all you need to know about a person and are worth 10 lines of dialogue in my opinion!" -> Yes x10 lines.

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