Drive

"I've got to tell you something/I know you don't want to hear"

"There's something inside you/ it's hard to explain/ they're talking about you boy..../ but your still the same"     -Kavinsky, "Nightcall" 1st Track from Drive Sound Track

From the beginning, Ryan Gosling is living a double life. A legitimate, and extremely talented stunt-driver by day, and a get away driver by night. The sound track immediately draws the viewer in, transforming the objective into the subjective. Some how, this story becomes personal; it becomes real. When Nino grins it elicits that same skin-crawling sensation of a real life encounter. "Hows the leg?" he ask, and the audience cringes. 

They meet in the elevator, the woman and the the stunt driver. There are few words, but something sparks between them. There are few words to the script, but the tension, the emotion, is all over the screen. As the audience we find ourselves dragged along mysterious excursion to the sound of a ball game competing with a police scanner. Still in the passenger seat our eyes lock on the driver, forced to ignore the men black masks in the rear. We are there with them. We're in the heist. We're along for the ride. Yet despite this shady situation, we identify with Gosling's character.

When he meets the girl, their eyes seem to ask each other, can you keep my secrets? Despite this, neither seem ready to volunteer; the question remains, will the truth ever be revealed? 

"My hands are a little dirty" Gosling's character says, "So are mine," the mobster responds.

"Drive" occurs in a setting, (In Los Angeles) that is completely contemporary and ordinary in every way, but there is a sensation in the viewing that something supernatural is happening. When the movie ends,there is loss, there is victory, there is life, there is death, and more than anything, there is the sense the everything in life is supernatural; everything is beyond real.


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