{"id":6270,"date":"2011-09-20T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2011-09-20T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:49:08","slug":"movie-review-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=6270","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: ‘Drive’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drive<\/p>\n

RYAN GOSLING<\/strong> is the driver in \u00a0the new film\u00a0Drive, <\/em>an eye-catching film, yet eye-closing movie.<\/p>\n

‘Drive’ is Not just Your Usual Speeding <\/strong>Recklessly \u00a0Through City Streets Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Film Has Brazenly Shocking Scenes<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n

By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know there are 100,000 streets in L.A.?\u00a0 Did you know the most popular car in L.A. is the Chevy Impala?\u00a0 Did you know if you use the Impala in L.A. in the commission of a crime, \u201cno one will be looking at you,\u201d according to \u201cthe Driver\u201d (he\u2019s never addressed by his name), in Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s bloody noire romance, Drive.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Driver (Ryan Gosling) also knows the codes he hears on his police band radio.\u00a0 Knowing the roads, knowing the codes, knowing the car and knowing the thieves he transports are \u201con their own\u201d if they aren\u2019t in the back seat within five minutes, the Driver has managed to stay ahead of the law.\u00a0 By day, he\u2019s a stunt-driver for the movies and a grease monkey at his friend Shannon\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n

Shannon (Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad<\/em>) is working on a race car he thinks the Driver can take over the finish line first; and, he has his hand out trying to broker a deal with mobster Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) to finance getting the car ready to compete.\u00a0 The Driver knows Shannon is dealing with dirty money when it comes to Bernie and Bernie\u2019s pal Nino (Ron Perlman); but he doesn\u2019t know how fatal it can be to get crosswise of these wise guys.<\/p>\n

Up to this point, the Driver has been one cool customer\u2014unflappable whether rolling a car for a camera or playing hide and seek with the L.A.P.D.\u2019s squad cars and helicopters.\u00a0 Cool-\u2014until he ignores detour signs around love.<\/p>\n

The Driver\u2019s down-the-apartment building-hall neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio (Kaden Leos) are riding out the last days of a prison term for Benicio\u2019s father (Oscar Isaac); but Irene is feeling her motor shift into high gear when she\u2019s around the Driver.<\/p>\n

We know little but the essence of any of these characters.\u00a0 When asked what he does (for a living) by Irene, our anti-hero simply says that he drives.\u00a0 Cars and the speed, daring and skill it takes to race or to escape are what the Driver appears to live for.\u00a0 He\u2019s into that, and nothing more, until he falls for Irene.<\/p>\n

When Irene\u2019s newly-released husband tries to refuse an outstanding favor he owes, the Driver steps in and decides to get Gabriele \u201cout for good; the debt paid.\u201d\u00a0 The debt turns out to be not only protection money, but money Nino was hiding from the \u201cfamily back East.\u201d<\/p>\n

From a simple pawnshop heist and getaway, the good deed turns deadly; with the Driver blowing away would-be assassins and getting mired deeper and deeper in a quagmire of blood that threatens to suck down everyone the Driver cares about.<\/p>\n

Although there is a minor amount of jaw-dropping driving on the screen, that isn\u2019t what Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini are into in this adaptation of the James Sallis novella.\u00a0 This is more of a psychological portrait, a mood piece, with exquisitely tuned silences and atmospheric photography.\u00a0 The violence is explicitly raw and gory, provoking eye-closing on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

Gosling\u2019s static face, only briefly softened by tenderness, could be likened to the Terminator\u2019s.\u00a0 It\u2019s an arresting portrait within a brazenly shocking film that resonates after the end credits.\u00a0 Rated R for extreme violence, strong language, nudity.<\/p>\n


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