The beauty of violence that is less than extreme

Geo 2022-04-21 09:01:06

When I watched this film, I felt that the first half was quite boring (excluding the first 10 minutes), and the pace was slow. But when the plot came to robbing the store, the style of painting suddenly changed. Classic shots such as one-shot headshots are used very well. The tactics used in the second half of the revenge are also very sophisticated, and the whole movie is full of gorgeous violent aesthetics. I think its name misleads the audience, in fact this film is not a pure drag racing film like "Furious". I think it's more of a documentary about a driver surviving adversity in the quagmire of gangsters. As for the ending, I think it's open ended. Maybe the protagonist is not dead, maybe the protagonist is dead (after all, he was stabbed in the waist, and the flickering of the lights behind also explains some problems). But no matter what I say, the handsomeness of the protagonist still makes me look good. The biggest problem with this film is the weak plot. Others, such as the use of the camera, the director's detailed handling, and the actors' performance are all satisfactory. So I think one star is really too few (the comments below are also scolding bad movies when I watch it), I think 7 to 8 points are definitely there.

Desperate Drive (2011)
7.4
2011 / United States / Drama Action / Nicholas Winding Refn / Ryan Gosling Carey Mulligan

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Extended Reading

Drive quotes

  • Driver: What is it you got there? Can I see?

    [Benicio hands Driver a bullet]

    Driver: One of those men gave you that?

    Benicio: They told me not to lose it.

    Driver: You want me to keep that for you?

  • Standard: Do you want to hear how mommy and me met?

    Benicio: Yeah.

    Standard: Yeah? Okay. We were at a party. And she was nineteen years old.

    Irene: Seventeen.

    Standard: You weren't seventeen.

    Irene: I was.

    Standard: Wow. So it was illegal.

    [laughs]

    Standard: All right. So I illegally walked over to a seventeen year old girl. And I walk up and I say, "Hello, Miss. What is your name?" And she didn't say anything. And then I said, "Well my name is Standard Gabriel." Then what did you say?

    Irene: I said, "Where's the deluxe version?"