Drive

Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2014)

Drive, from director Nicolas Winding Refn, is a story about a mysterious stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver. He starts falling for her neighbor, who looks alone for her daughter. Then her husband gets out of jail and owes money to some bad people, our driver wants to help and agrees to do a getaway job but something goes wrong and he gets in trouble he didn't want.
"You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own. Do you understand?" - The Driver
This movie is entirely a new musical experience, it's not the usual orchestra or rock music, which is good, it aims to be different from what we already expect it to be. It is a simple, yet complex movie, it doesn't attempt to create new things, it uses what already works. With short and slow understandable dialogs it paces and creates a good story. The viewer has time to think about it, to meditate about what's going through the characters mind.
Our main character is a anti-hero, he intends to do the right things but he uses the wrong ways to do it, we feel for him, even if he shows a little psychosis, he does care about the girl and her daughter but when someone harms him or them, he acts under extreme violence showing the violent and troubled man he is, maybe because of his past, we don't know for sure (but we don't need to).
Overall good performances, good direction, and a screenplay that is very well paced, it doesn't rush anything. Watch it!