Thursday, September 22, 2011

Drive.




Drive is a film that you have to pay real close attention to. It contains a large amount of subtle emotion that is hard to understand due to its intentional lack of dialogue. Drive is a slow moving film in both its action and non action sequences. It ends up working out well because it is easy to figure out that both the slow moving action and dialogue reduction was intended by its director. In the age of giant explosions and lots of yelling, Drive is a complete success on its story alone. Even though the nameless driver seems to lack basic social skills, this actually ends up helping because it puts lots of words aside so that only his feelings are showing. The feelings that do show are that he is seemingly quick to fall in love with his neighbor, a single mother whose husband is in jail, and her young son. This quick attachment is made possible because of the lonely live that the driver has carved out for himself as both a movie stunt driver and a wheelman for heists. While Drive is slow to get started, it surely provides a breath of fresh air into the action movie genre.  

The good: The focus of Drive is delivering a strong storyline while setting aside constant action and dialogue; luckily Drive does exceptionaly well. 

The bad: Ryan Gosling's lack of lines can be quite annoying to some. 

Rating: 8.6 out of 10

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