“Emotions are what we are drawn to – everything else is just pure mechanics.”
-Nicolas Winding Refn
Drive, adapted by screenwriter Hossein Amini from the novel by James Sallis, is flawlessly simple: cleanly shot driving with considerable violence, peppered with just enough emotional appeal, and a stoic, chivalrous hero at the wheel. Most of the elements are familiar, and for this, director Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark native, known for Bronson) is entirely unapologetic. He succeeds in bringing us what ...
