Myst #3: Drive

I'm not a fan of a dark theme crime movie and often times it's hard to follow with the story or what the main character is doing. Don't get me wrong, there are some crime related movies either because of it's intensive unpredictable scenes to the smaller aspects of the cinematography and fitting well with the story. The director Nicolas Winding Refn directed Drive and other including "Only God forgives", "Bronson" and the "Pusher" which are crime movies that have decent storylines and well appropriate cinematography and fitting in with the appropriate scenes in the movies symbolizing the personality of that certain character. While I was watching the movie, I was wondering if I was going to get bored either from making no sense to me the scenes of being judgmental if the scenes would make sense with what's happening. When I was this movie, I was amazed at the scenes in cooperation with the cinematic aspects and how the characters interacted with those scenes. The movie is about a driver (Ryan Gosling) and that he is a very good at stealing money. As the movie progresses, he becomes fails at stealing a heist. The consequences of him failing is that he ahs to protect Irene (Carey Mulligan) and Benicio (Kaden Leos) from the criminals that want him dead.

Towards the middle of the movie, we are taking a closer look at when the driver kissed Irene. When they kissed, there's light coming from a little source that has it while the rest of the room is covered in darkness and the light shining on their faces indicate that there might be hope in what they're about to do and or their mission to save each other. The darkness indicate that while their might some hope with the light shining upon them, that there might be a chance that death will occur and concur their lives and that they might die with what they're about to do. Their kiss indicate like that of a usual movie that it could be their last time together considering that it might their last time being alive. The high key lighting is separated from the darkness with no low key lighting showing a chance of them surviving and a chance of them not surviving.

In my own opinion, what I enjoyed about the movie was the how the lighting fit in well with each scene and how it set separate tones of the mood of the characters and their situations they're in from the different components that fit well together. What I didn't like about the movie was how (Spoiler) towards the end, the movie left you to ponder as to what just happened and what's going to happen to the main character next. I would recommend this movie to those who love crime related movies and those who always criticize a movie for they might be surprised of what this has got to offer.

 

Drive Official Trailer