it's love

Linnea 2022-04-21 09:01:06

On the surface, Drive is a crime movie; in essence, Drive is about love.

Love, violent and tender, revealed to the fullest, making people breathless and heavy on their hearts.

Elements such as coldness, sweetness, violence and tenderness are entangled and turned into a strange and poignant style. The elevator scene in the movie is simply a perfect combination of the above elements, which makes people hold their breaths, and God wins it.

Director Nicolas Winding Refn has extraordinary skills and audacity, and can take such a film that was accidentally reduced to a genre film to another level, allowing the film to break through the limitations of crime.

Drive, with a pun, means both driving and a compulsive state of mind. The male protagonist wears a scorpion's racing jersey from head to tail, which just highlights this pun. The film also brilliantly interprets these two meanings that are closely related in the film.

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Extended Reading
  • Delmer 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    very nice! There are tunes from previous European killer films, but overall it is already very entertaining. The plot is simple and a little bit bloody, but the whole film is very dazzling, from the director to the actor without exception. The highlight of this movie is not the story at all. Those who can't see the aesthetics of cinematic or unprincipledly resist dazzling skills should not like this movie, the type of love or hate. Cannes judges are no better than you.^^

  • Megane 2021-10-20 18:59:04

    Shooting crime movies in this way is quite unique. Excessive admiration of form, such as frequent slow motion, unique lighting, and the protagonist’s unchanging and handsome shape, makes the film weaken the narrative in the sense of form (too life is not cool). Ryan Gosling encounters an excellent character, such as a volcano under a tranquil sea, calm and tender on the outside, but a sudden eruption is devastating. Disco is very sensual.

Drive quotes

  • Driver: You get out of here and you never fucking come back. You never come back.

    Shannon: What are you going to do?

  • Driver: [to Bernie] You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river.