I’m prepping to interview Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of “Drive,” a really remarkable film that Julia and I saw a couple weeks ago. It’s a crime thriller starring Ryan Gosling (along with a bunch of other brilliant folks – Albert Brooks, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman), but it’s disconcertingly quiet. Punctuated, every so often, by shocking violence.
This trailer is really just an early scene from the film in its entirety.
The song “A Real Hero” serves as a sort of theme for the movie, and for Gosling’s character. It reminded me of an early 80s score by Tangerine Dream. It’s both inspiration and reserved, almost melancholically so. Like the movie, though, it really gets under your skin.