You can see this in the opening sequence of the film when Driver is on his job, following each requirement to the fullest and completing the job successfully transporting the robbers. Driver is loyal to his word giving his clients only 5 minutes to take care of their business before the job is officially, not his problem. You can find loyalty in the pride Driver takes in his work, taking multiple getaway driver jobs from his friend/boss Shannon played by Bryan Cranston. Drive has a layer of loyalty, loneliness, and mysteriousness that he carries throughout the film along with a bunch of other qualities, but they seem to be the ones that shine the brightest. Throughout the movie the main character, Ryan Gosling, only known as The Driver remains pretty quite, a loner for the most part speaking only when he has too, and keeping it brief when he does. On the surface you can easily find loyalty, mysteriousness, loneliness, love, connection, misfortune, miscommunication and lack of, vulnerability, and bad timing. For the car chases that did happen had me on the edge of my seat, I would’ve enjoyed a couple more, but that’s just my action-hunger getting riled up.ĭrive is chock full of thematic elements to say the least. However, one thing that I would’ve modified in the script would definitely have to be more car chases. I didn’t mind watching Gosling cruise the streets in his muscle cars because it was visually pleasing. In my opinion, I really liked the pacing of the film and the aesthetics it came wrapped with. Although the story can seem drawn out at some points, there’s beautiful montages to take the space and get the audience through it.
Refn takes this movie, and with his filmmaking skills, winds a dark web that spirals and intersects with multiple characters and plot points all putting them onto the giant web of Drive. Along with the beautiful visuals by cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel, director Nicolas Winding Refn does an amazing job of visualizing and recreating Hossein Amini’s script. Drive, in my opinion, was a movie that was immensely overlooked by many that’s why I am able to consider this movie a hidden gem to anyone has yet to see it.
The lighting, cinematography, coloring, and wide array of shots/angles were just some of the nails hit right on the head by the entire crew behind the making of Drive. Drive goes further than to just show itself off as a story, it exemplifies itself as a piece of art. Drive is nothing short of visually spectacular.
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