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Its certainly not for everyone. I pushed a friend to see it and she didn't like it either.
But from my review of Drive...

and...

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I'd agree with all that, but it's one thing to see that a piece of art is good, and it's another to like a piece of art.

I would say the romance subplot is my favourite thing about the movie, but you say the characters are constantly being developed, but I constantly felt that Gosling's character was inconsistent to the point I couldn't trust any of his development, is he this quiet guy that just loves to drive, or is he a maniac who'll stamp a head in?

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Can't he be both?

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

if he was that would make him a Norman Bates type character, the thing is I liked that quiet guy, it felt like a betrayal when he turned psycho.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

That's the beauty of the character, The Driver lives a quiet, peaceful life up until the point where shit gets really bad, at that moment he has to turn into a creature of pure violence to protect both Irene and Benicio, something which The Driver is clearly repulsed by, there's a darkness inside him that he wants to avoid. This is foreshadowed in the part where The Driver asks Benicio if a shark has to be bad just because he is a shark, just the look on The Driver's face after Benicio's answer, certainly one of the peaks of Gosling's amazing performance.

A similar turn of character is also shown for both Bernie and Nino, who seem friendly and nice at the beginning, yet pretty much turn into killing machines by the time the movie ends (Bernie mostly). The point of interest here is how, when you see the movie a second time, you can see the consistencies of both characters' motivations, Nino's desire for approval and acceptance is shown when he specifices what a car's purpose should be, same for Bernie, who does his utmost to prevent all the violence, yet at the very end, he is incapable of getting back from the "bloodlust".

Really Avatar, shame on you for not loving Drive

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Maybe I just need to watch it again then, but that's the problem with renting, unless I buy it or rent it again, I cannot watch it again.

generally though I'm the kind of person who only watches a movie once, and if it doesn't grab my attention first time I will most likely forget about it and move on, Drive simply didn't grab my attention, and normally I would move on, but since I seem to be the only person, apart from some girl NO knows, that didn't get grabbed by it, I'm thinking maybe I should watch it again, hopefully it'll come down in price quick if it does a 300 and sells really well to a niche market and then sales plummet quickly after release.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Also, if you aren't already familiar with the "Scorpion and the Frog" tale, look it up. It'll tell you quite a bit more about the Driver.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

Hm interesting, was that intentional? In the special features they said the scorpion on the jacket was a last minute thing, also the driver doesn't die.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

But..............HOW DO YOU KNOW ?

Actually, Nicholas Winding Refn confirmed it in an interview.

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([b][/b]confirmed that he does, or confirmed that he doesn't?)

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

^ (Confirmed that he doesn't die)

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I 100% believe he does. The driver who motors off at the end of the movie is a cleansed spirit, who obeyed his warrior code to the end by sacrificing his life to preserve those he was protecting. His reward is an eternal drive off into the sunset.

Or maybe he just pushed his guts back into his wound and they healed themselves and he was off to get a happy-meal...

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...evidently chicken-town.

I hardly believe getting stabbed once with a switchblade would cause your innards to fall out

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So...basically I have to avoid this thread for fear of having a movie I haven't seen yet be spoiled. Great.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I hardly believe that an experienced knife-killer would miss his mark, with the element of surprise, from behind.

Plus, the 'literal' reading of those last scenes is pretty.... meh.

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...evidently chicken-town.

Are we talking about the same guy who:

SPOILERS --> Stabbed a guy in the eye with a fork for NO reason other than freaking the audience out ?

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I thought it was made pretty clear that *the Driver lived but just couldn't see Irene or Benicio again.* I don't get why people think it's ambiguous.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

i thought it was pretty clear that he drove off with a million bucks in the back of his car.

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And according to the director...

Well all my films always have open endings. All of them. Because I believe art is always best when…you talk about it and think about it, so forth. Maybe once in awhile I’ve gone too far, but I always believe in finding the right balance. And in ‘Drive’ he lives on for more and new adventures.

So I guess I'm wrong. Maybe. He does say '...open endings. All of them.', so maybe he gots his tongue in his cheek. I'm gonna go with my lyrical, poetic ending, and hope to fuck he doesn't really intend to ruin this with ... SEQUELS!!!!! SELLL-OOUUUUTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

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...evidently chicken-town.

Nope, either way, he left it on the ground in the parking lot, next to the corpse.

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...evidently chicken-town.