I
just watched Drive again. What do you think about it. I just loved it's
cinematography and it's way of saying so much with minimal dialouge. Oh and
what soundtracks!! I just talked to some of my friends and people on the
internet about it and some of them really dislike it. I could not understand
why. Drop your comments I'd love to hear your opinions about it.
Patrick McEvoy-Halston There is something extremely
grotesque in how Albert Brooks character tries to manage Cranston's character
into a quiescent mood, even as he has just murdered him. He plays the nurse to
him, even as he's clearly the executioner, and something in the movie has us
detach ourselves to Crayston for understanding him as probably just agreeable
at this point... can't put up a fight against his own desire to please by not
being aggravating to someone who is speaking to him with some sympathy. Not a
movie with much sympathy towards the weak, because no avenue is provided to
involve ourselves with them without feeling like we've lent our own selves to
Peter Hoffman Hypocrisy.
David Huskey That is a good point about Brook's
actions after sneakily delivering a mortal wound, but I do see the movie as
being sympathetic toward the weak. Brooks is a repulsive character and
Cranstonis a sympathetic one. The story is one where the weak are at risk
from stronger predators, but that is not presented as a good thing. The driver
tries to help Standard (where's the de luxe version) and his wife and child,
and appears to succeed with the latter two, who are the weakest and most
vulnerable characters in the movie.
Patrick McEvoy-Halston David Huskey I wish I agreed with you,
for I do like the film. Brooks is operating at a higher level of sanity than
anyone but Gosling... and I think regarding Gosling's character, that it is
regarded as such an estimable thing that I didn't really buy the film as
for the weak--the very last thing it would have him do is perform in a way
which was as hapless as Cranston. Being weak, has to be for other people, has
to be displaced there. If being weak has to be outside oneself, it might be
linked to it being associated to a sense of blameworthiness itself. Do we
really like Standard? Or do we think he deserved dispatch for being so needy of
rescue? About his wife and child, she flinches at his violence, but what do we
think of people who draw back when someone simply stops pretending they're
simply wallpaper... when they reveal the entirety of their competency? I think
in a sense one becomes fed up with her. She becomes marginal. You'd take her in
only because she's smaller than you, which is enabling for the insecure.
Peter Hoffman Kind of like, "The Hulk."
or Jason Bourne.
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