A cab driver importunes a Justice Department attorney with his conspiracy theories. There are elements in their past lives which spell real danger for them though.
This is another movie which I view now for the second time and appears better than it did the first time. It is very well filmed, and that alone makes for a fine spectacle. The theme is resolved into a well-structured series of images, situations and plot elements which, while not exactly groundbreaking or deep, are interesting enough. Gore Vidal, the novelist and essayist, is perhaps the only one who expressed his displeasure with the present-day concept of conspiracy by stating that the powerful have no need to conspire, because, well, they have the power, exactly. This remark remains as a last attempt at clinging to the original concept of conspiracies. Now the word has become a paleonomy, that is, it has acquired a new meaning, which, in this case, refers to a plot devised by those who have power. This film is to a certain extent self-referential since narratives, at least conventional ones, are the product of a conspiracy (in the updated version of the word), in which the author "plots" (the word itself reveals the connection) the events, their unfolding and how they relate to one another.
Rating: 55 (up from 42)
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