An Outstanding Movie, but disturbing to watch

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2017)

As far as I am concerned, this was not a fun film. Baby Driver has outstanding acting, great direction, stunts that are terrific, and a story that glues one to the screen, but I did not find this movie fun. Why Baby Driver absorbs the viewer into a world of crime that is quiet disturbing to me.
Since this film makes the story come alive, it is very believable. We get to know the characters and have a feel for them. Baby is the driver in this crime outfit, and he is clearly the only sympathetic person in the crime group. Baby is a good person who is a great driver.. The criminals are evil, plain and simple. That evil is shown in many ways that we understand.
Those outside the crime group are not evil Those people are normal and have the characteristics of normal people. There is the girl friend a truly likable person. There is the older man that Baby lives with who has a disability that Baby learns to accept and further he learns to help with. There are people that baby meets on the street who are also normal. And these people are contrasted with the evil group in a way which is extraordinary. This is a drama, a deep and personal drama that is portrayed as an action picture. While it does have great action and stunts, it is first a drama. Deep and personal and in some ways very dark.
I was under the impression that this film was going to be total "fun" but it was not in my opinion. This is a film that contrast good and evil in a special way. The cars move through Atlanta fast and glorious. There is this stunt and that stunt, but to me this is not about cars and stunts. (although that is what it seems on the surface)
This film is about people and its main character, Baby, who is a driver for this crime group. While the crime group is clearly evil, Baby is not. Baby is basically good. How Baby deals with this contrast and the consequences of it in his life, is the essence of this film.