Baby Driver is a heist movie about being conflicted

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2017)

What is the movie Baby Driver about in one sentence? A young man who becomes a criminal and does not want to be a criminal any longer.
Baby Driver is a movie about being conflicted. It is worth seeing, but might leave you questioning the meaning of the story. It is a great movie that I thought had a very good moral lesson. The problem is that in order to get to the moral of the story you have to first get through the film with its many plot holes, questions, and cartoonish criminal characters.
What makes the movie unique is that the main character Baby has a constant ring in his ears. To drown it out he plays music off his iPod and throughout the film we are treated to his song choices. The viewer is literally listening to whatever Baby is listening to at an given moment. The way the scenes are linked up to the music is one of the best aspects of this film. The best chase seen in this film does not even require a car.
The trailer really hypes this film up with the cars. This is NOT a car movie. It is NOT a driver movie either. It is a crime/heist movie.
The viewer is never really given much more than a small sentence about how Baby became a part of his criminal group. He owes the leader Doc. That is it. And because of that it is hard to understand the aspect of confliction with the main character in this movie. This is unlike the heist classic Heat, where the criminals make no apologies for who they are. In the movie Heat the criminals are professionals in their minds and what they do is what they do. It is their job. In Baby Driver, the criminals are idiots and you are constantly wondering why Baby ever agrees to work with any of them. He has to work with them but he does not have to work with them?? This is actually a question you will come away with while watching this film.
There is a quote that comes up in this film that I guess was supposed to be the moral of the story? But I really could not understand what the moral of the story was supposed to be because I had never been shown how Baby ended up where he was now at his age.
I liked the ending because at least it was somewhat real life. Baby's words to Debora are what this film was about in my opinion. Director Edgar Wright said everyone will have their opinion of the ending and its meaning. Many viewers will end up debating the meaning of how the movie Baby Driver ends.
The film is unique because you see the world through Baby Driver's music. But that is through his ears and not his eyes, and after seeing the movie, there were parts of it that left me feeling very confused. Or was that the point?