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Drive - Movie Review
GRADE: A
Thirty-five years ago Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver defined violence’s potential to be art, in a film that fundamentally presented an uncompromised portrait of the dark side of American life. Present day, this influence can be unequivocally seen in the Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, a film that gained directing honors from the recent Cannes Film Festival. While it can be undoubtedly viewed as a collection of homes to other works, Refn somehow brings a chic quality to this modern noir thriller that is remarkably edgy and somehow contradictorily unique.
Drive is a film adaptation of a novel of the same name that relies on a noir type storytelling. The protagonist is the nameless driver (Ryan Gosling) - a seemingly misunderstood and isolated character that just oozes its De Niro homage - who works as a stunt man and mechanic by day, and moonlights as a getaway driver by night. After a heist goes awry, he finds himself caught up with local gangster Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) and a pile of money that is not his. When he realizes he is the target of Rose’s forces, he must protect himself as well as his newly founded love interest, Irene (Carey Mulligan). Overall, the plot itself can be seen as somewhat thin, as it does not have much depth or meaning; But it still provides its twists and excitement needed for the film’s punctuation on overall essence.
