Drive. My thought:
7.0 out of 10
I like a lot about this movie. Loved the symbology (who gets it?). Very student friendly movie. People will watch this one day in the same way we read books. If you've never taken a lit class in college, you won't get what I'm talking about but the characters are all very overt, despite (or because of) the pregnant pauses.
But, it's because of that I only gave it a 7. There is a layered quality to the characters that matches Tennessee Williams, but not Shakespeare, if you get my drift. It's the type of movie that forces you to look deeper but frankly you hit bottom right below the surface.
The soudtrack tells you what to think. Not even kidding. That's emblematic of the movie though. The movie, to me, is made for people who watch bad movies without recognizing they are bad (and honestly I really mean 'not challenging', not bad) and say 'that's a good movie'.
Take for instance 'the godfather'. There are layers to those characters. Sonny, Michael, Vito, they are all layered. And drive was layered, but only once, where Vito for instance was not only a ruthless crime lord, but also a caring father, but also a principled young man, but also a boy longing to right what he saw as a very deep wrong.
The movie 'drive' to me harkens back to a conversation I once had with a professor about the difference between literature and Literature. 'Drive' pretends to be 'Literature' but it's not.
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