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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive works across time and genre. It’s set in present-day Los Angeles, uses an 80s score and soundtrack, features a tragic 50s noir protagonist, and wraps everyone up in archetypical figures that manage to feel fresh through strong performances and gorgeous cinematography. It’s a film that confidently walks the line between alienating its audience with bold choices but it never strays so far into the obtuse or the strange that you lose the hard-boiled crime story simmering underneath. It constantly challenges the audience to look away with its intensity, its thoughtfulness, and its brutality, but it’s too damn entertaining to look away.
Like all great noir protagonists, the Driver (Ryan Gosling) has a code and it makes him good at his job. He’s a stunt-driver by day, but at night his true driving talent shines when he works as a wheelman. He can outrun his pursuers when necessary, but his real strength is in his reserve and patience in the face of danger. While he attempts to keep others at a distance, he eventually warms up to his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son Benecio. When Irene’s husband Standard Gabriel (Oscar Isaac) gets out of prison, he comes home and owes protection money to bad folks. The Driver decides he’ll help Gabriel on a job in order to protect Irene and Benecio, but matters then fall apart as shady figures Nino (Ron Perlman) and Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) come into play. Like all great noir protagonists, The Driver breaks from his code to do something honorable and it leads to his downfall.
Ryan Gosling commands the camera the second Drive begins. Although he says very little in the film’s first 20 minutes, Gosling’s impact is immense.
Gosling is Driver, a movie stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for anyone who will hire him. The film commences with a scene featuring Gosling as the latter as he patiently awaits two people he is charged with driving away from a robbery of some sort. The clock ticks, the police sirens get ever closer and yet Gosling never flinches. Sure as the first man arrives out of the building, he sits in the backseat and becomes increasingly more anxious as seconds go by looking for his partner to emerge. It is clear in this first of the film’s many outstanding moments that Gosling not only commands this film, he owns it.
That fact is not a surprise since -- as Gosling told Movie Fanatic in our interview -- the actor was integral in the film’s development. With director Nicolas Winding Refn on board, the duo crafted a moment in cinema for 2011 that is one of the best. It crackles with excitement, but what makes Drive so delicious is how its quieter moments only enhance the action.
Gosling’s Driver lives in an apartment down the hall from Irene (Carey Mulligan). They run into each other in the building a few times, but it is underplayed and the pair don’t truly meet until Irene’s car needs work which lands her at the mechanic shop where Gosling works. His boss, played with usual panache by Bryan Cranston, offers his employee's services in driving Irene home since it’s clear the two know each other. The spark of romance is hinted at, but immediately hindered by the fact that Irene has a husband, and he will be out of jail soon
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Like all great noir protagonists, the Driver (Ryan Gosling) has a code and it makes him good at his job. He’s a stunt-driver by day, but at night his true driving talent shines when he works as a wheelman. He can outrun his pursuers when necessary, but his real strength is in his reserve and patience in the face of danger. While he attempts to keep others at a distance, he eventually warms up to his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son Benecio. When Irene’s husband Standard Gabriel (Oscar Isaac) gets out of prison, he comes home and owes protection money to bad folks. The Driver decides he’ll help Gabriel on a job in order to protect Irene and Benecio, but matters then fall apart as shady figures Nino (Ron Perlman) and Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) come into play. Like all great noir protagonists, The Driver breaks from his code to do something honorable and it leads to his downfall.
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