Brilliant movie. Good direction! One of the best I have seen.

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2019)

I was just re watching this and I noticed something. At the start of the film, Shannon mentions that Driver is stunt doubling for the star of the film. That means the mask is a mask of the main protagonist in whatever movie's being shot, which adds a more fitting meaning as to why Driver wears it. Because he finally gets to be the good guy, the real hero, as he's been wanting all along. He's the stuntman / hero - It was completely missed in this review . The frog/scorpion is a no brainer - but wearing the mask illustrates / metaphor that he is in fact the hero . Though Chris indirectly mentions this by X lines reality / Hollywood - Its key as his nature was never really that of the scorpion - by definition. Early in the movie, the Driver has a "staring contest" with little Benicio, telling him "you blinked." In a film this meticulously crafted, no detail is unimportant. During that last suspenseful scene, I was freakin' waiting for that blink. It had to happen, it was foreshadowed.
Scorpion & the Frog story - Driver references the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog: the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river; the scorpion stings the frog, saying "it's my nature" and both drown. Driver can be seen as The Frog of the story - he drives/carries criminals (scorpions) around in his car, but is inevitably dragged into their destructive world (stung) leading to everybody's downfall. Driver's jacket has a scorpion on the back, just as the frog carried the scorpion on its back. Effing BRILLIANT MOVIE! This is the CINEMA I live for.