5.11.2013

Drive


          This Nicolas Winding Refn-directed film is about a Hollywood stunt driver, played by Ryan Gosling. The driver befriends a neighbor in his apartment building, played by Carey Mulligan, who has a young son with her and a husband in jail. When her husband is released, he has some problems to iron out. The driver, wanting the girl and kid to have a safe life, helps her husband out to protect her. That is when the trouble begins. Bryan Cranston costars as the garage owner who the driver works for. He helps the driver make deals with some Jewish mobsters and such. The movie's style reminded me of that of the scene in Kill Bill (Vol. 2 I believe) when the bride tells a female assassin that she just found out that she is pregnant. I don't normally go for the dark cinematography, but it really worked in this movie. The lighting was usually good enough to be able to tell which characters were present in the scene. I thought the parts when the driver put on the prosthetic from the movie he was working on were clever. After all, part of what made this movie special was that it was about the life of a movie stunt driver. That's not a life we normally get to see, and it was interesting to follow that type of performer around for a bit. Seeing Cranston in a very different role from Walter White in Breaking Bad was fun, just as he tweeted it was. For me, this movie kind of felt like modern film noir, and I really liked how there wasn't a whole lot of dialogue. Gosling's character was cool, as was his relationship with Mulligan's. This was a great prologue to the second movie I watched today, Lost in Translation.

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