If you guys haven’t seen it, Drive is on netflix. I still haven’t been able to shake the man crush it gave me for Ryan Gosling. I’ve seen it in theaters thrice. Oh, it also gave me a raging hard on for the cinematography of Nicolas Winding Refn. The first ten minutes alone are pitch perfect.
The film that should have been named in this category is Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive.” Transcending the crime genre, it stars Ryan Gosling as a man who lives primarily to drive. Sometimes he’s a movie stunt driver, sometimes he drives getaway for crooks. He seems to have no family, no history and seemingly few emotions. Whatever happened to him drove any personality deep beneath the surface. He is an existential hero, defined entirely by his behavior. Not depending on violence, not buttressed by chase scenes, this film is a personality study. How often do we find the hero of an “action picture” to be this deeply interesting?
I will buy all the box sets. Even if it means some faustian sort of deal with Satan, I will have the laserdisc, the betamax, the vhs, dvd, blu-ray, and digital download. In fact, I won’t stop till I get my hands on the actual celluloid.
She looks so enthused. They both look so enthused.
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