Monday, 10 August 2015

Drive (Winding Refn, 2011)

One of my favorite people's favorite films so I had to watch it and oh my gosh am I glad I did! Ryan Gosling plays the driver, the unnamed main character of this feature (I don't want to say protagonist as that suggests he's a good guy and it is way more complex than that). It starts quite simply, he drives for people that need to get away, as in from a crime scene, during the night and during the day switches it up between working at a garage and being a stunt driver for films. But it begins to get more complicated when he starts to notice his neighbor, portrayed by the very pretty Carey Mulligan, whom has a child with her husband whom in prison. And no spoilers but stuff gets serious and it gets rather Tarantino in this neo-noir arthouse feature.
The best thing about this film is the ending because it is so unpredictable, yet as it happens you realise that the ending you wanted so desperately to happen for 90 minutes was just never going to happen for real because lets face it this film apart from the almost Tarantino levels of blood is very real and gritty, very gritty for a film that really doesn't seem like that kind of film whatsoever. The second best thing about this film is the soundtrack because every single time I have gotten into my car since watching this film I have felt a desperate need for that soundtrack, so much so that I have actually ordered it already! In addition to this the cinematography, oh my giddy aunt they knew what they doing, it's just so perfectly done. It isn't symmetrical or perfectly framed in the center and that is why it is perfect. Because it isn't perfect, like the story isn't perfect. Our main characters life isn't perfect, it's just symbolism in camera shots and it is beautiful. 
Ok, I'll stop now. Basically this film is amazing, and you have to go and see it even if you don't like 'arthouse' films because it is just unexplainbly good! Five stars easy, I don't know how I could give it any less than that!

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