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Drive (2011)
I'm
going to nail my flag to the mast straight from the off on this one. I love
Drive
. No, I don't love it, I've become obsessed by it. When I watched Drive
for the first time, when the credits rolled, I got myself a drink and hit play on the DVD again. That's only ever happened to me a handful of times. Of all the films
I've watched over the last few years this is the one I go back to the most.
With every watch it gets better, reveals more and bares a part of its guts
never seen before.
Driver
is a stunt driver, working film sets. Between stunt jobs he works at Shannon’s
garage. Between those jobs he works as a getaway driver. When he moves into a
new apartment he meets his neighbour and her son.
That’s
your set up for the movie, and really, the entire movie hinges on the last line
above – he meets his neighbour and her son. Everything else that happens in the
film comes from that small moment, everything.
