{"id":3045,"date":"2007-04-24T19:31:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:44:47","slug":"taxi-zum-klo-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Zum Klo (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m your normal, tired, neurotic, polymorphously perverse teacher.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Poster-1-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Poster-1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Poster-1-92x128.jpg 92w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Poster-1.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA sexually adventurous gay schoolteacher (Frank Ripploh) resists monogamy with his new partner (Bernd Broaderup).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character Studies<\/li>\n<li>German Films<\/li>\n<li>Homosexuality<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality<\/li>\n<li>Teachers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this humorous cult film by German writer\/director Frank Ripploh (who essentially plays himself) is a &#8220;self-indulgent&#8221;, &#8220;crudely made, disjointed, but intriguing autobiographical account.&#8221; Ripploh isn&#8217;t afraid to portray himself as a bit of a jerk: he&#8217;s the kind of guy who, lacking toilet paper, wipes his bum on a guest towel, then nonchalantly puts it back on the rack. Later, when he openly cheats on his new partner (the good-looking yet frustratingly passive Broaderup), we&#8217;re disturbed, but not all that surprised &#8212; and, at the very least, we respect Ripploh&#8217;s honesty about his need for sexual adventure. <\/p>\n<p><em>Taxi Zum Klo<\/em> (which translates into &#8220;Taxi to the [Public] Toilet&#8221;) is especially effective at showing how Ripploh was able to keep his sex life completely separate from his career as a schoolteacher. In one particularly overt instance, Ripploh cross-cuts between innocent shots of his tutoring session with a young male student, and his transvestite friend commenting disparagingly while watching a cautionary school film about a pedophile. It may be a heavy-handed message, but it&#8217;s an important one &#8212; and it works within the context of the film&#8217;s unabashed presentation of explicit gay male sexuality (surely an eye-opener for many at the time). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A no-holds-barred look at male gay life in 1980s Berlin<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Still.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Still-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Still-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Taxi-Zum-Klo-Still-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, both for its status as a cult film and as a cultural window into a unique subculture. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0081606\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/10\/02\/movies\/taxizum-klo.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/78994.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m your normal, tired, neurotic, polymorphously perverse teacher.&#8221; Synopsis: A sexually adventurous gay schoolteacher (Frank Ripploh) resists monogamy with his new partner (Bernd Broaderup). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Character Studies German Films Homosexuality Sexuality Teachers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this humorous cult film by German writer\/director Frank Ripploh (who essentially plays himself) is a &#8220;self-indulgent&#8221;, &#8220;crudely made, disjointed, but intriguing autobiographical account.&#8221; Ripploh isn&#8217;t afraid to portray himself as a bit of a jerk: he&#8217;s the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3045\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64142,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/64142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}