Original at a cost

Rating: 7/10 (20 April 2019)

Sometimes you forget that cinematography is an art form. In that sense, making a movie shouldn't follow a single blueprint. Instead, it should be bound only to creativity. The director in baby driver empowered this philosophy and told us the story of baby through music and visuals instead of words. That's how this movie differs from the others and it was a funny experience watching it. It thrills me how Edgar Wright acknowledges the various tools of movie-making as equally important (to dialogue).
The music was excellent and the visuals were perfect espescially the chasing scenes. I liked also how the soundtrack is included into the story as a form of narration so to speak.
In most movies the music would be employed in a couple of scenes and then it stops making room for the actual dialogue. In baby driver it's the exact opposite where the soundtrack only stops in two or three scenes. Even in some scenes that you feel important to the story and the music should stop, it only looses in volume as you can still hear it coming from the earphones. I feel like the director is making fun of the classic storytelling with this method and personally I think he's not totally wrong.
Having said that, I believe the use of music and visuals so intensely made the plot less compelling than it should be.
For instance, Foxx didn't have to kill those cops. In fact, they didn't even have to buy weapons in the first place. And why would you choose a mailpost as your final heist ?
As I said in the title it's original but it came at a cost as the plot wasn't truly fulfilling to follow but it was fun to watch and it didn't disappoint me frankly.