Yes obviously. But film criticism here - oh boy how much is written on this film - endless endless. If you wanted yet another lengthy critique, would have to re watch. The premise of the film is what is now unacceptable and downright tedious. (Along with so many films which tell this same story...
But the way he acts it self consciously and laughing aware - not love hearting him but the whole thing, the cinematography also (as described already, sorry I am a thread 🧵 killa)
But Drive is a bad film. It’s meta. It draws on all tropes like 1950s 80s James Dean ingredients and ends up with a vacuous digital low res crappy drive around trope Los Angeles: rebel without a case
camp masculinity, like a western, like the roof top scene of brad pitt in once upon a time we look at him like a beauty (female position in Classical Hwood)
Saw Rome, Open City (1945) last night, loved it. Did anyone else have recurring visualizations they would never break under interrogation as a child while growing up? Must have been as a result of all the war stuff; now no such black and white
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