This movie helped me understand introverts. Just because he is introverted doesn't mean he doesn't care. He may just take 210+ seconds to respond to an emotional expression. Some are slower than others.
Tbf, he is not your regular introvert. He is a borderline psychopath with a really specific disorder. There are VERY obvious issues going on there beneath that exterior.
@@Izaan2810 IDK why I see this "psychopath" interpretation of driver so much. You can tell throughout that he genuinely hates the situation he finds himself in and is just taking whatever measures absolutely necessary to extriccate himself from it. For instance, you can tell in the strip club scene that he is beyond terrified of what he's doing with the hammer and the bullet. He's scared and acts in very human and emotional ways if you watch closely enough. He never came across as a cold blooded psychopath to me at any time in the film.
@@BustAcApInCoD50 I might be wrong, I admit. You put forward a great argument. Maybe he is not a psychopath. However, there's something just really out of the ordinary about this guy's behavior. There are definitely some underlying mental issues going on that refrain him from acting normally. He is a bit TOO stoic, for me to consider him as a regular introvert. And the way he shows expertise at killing and acts instantly without any hesitation. He shows zero regards for his own life as well. Something really melancholic and somber that also suggests massive loss at some point in history that he no longer cares to find any purpose in his life until Irene and the boy came into his life. My point is that, he is not your regular introvert.
@@Izaan2810 Driver is certaintly an engima of a person. Shannon describes him to Irene as walking into his shop about 5 or 6 years ago "right outta the blue" asking for a job and showed a savant level of proficiency in mechanics. He also tells Bernie, when it comes to Driver's abilities at the wheel that he's "special" and that he's "never seen anything like it." I've seen interpretations that driver is deliberately acting as a movie archetype (cowboy, I would say) to express his masculinity and I think there is merit to that. He obviously has an affinity for film as he has pursued stunt driving and this can be seen as an extension of acting out his fantasies of being the archtypal hero. So his character is constantly "acting" and is detached from being a "real human being." You don't know the real driver at all really, but maybe at the end he has fulfilled his fantasy of being a hero considering the scenario he just lived through in reality and can now go on to live a more "real" life. Why did Driver have the impulse to live this life though? You can only speculate since he seemed to appear out of thin air one day about 5 or 6 years ago.
@nn4284 I've seen the literally me thing with Ryan Gosling like four years ago. I'm pretty sure it's been around on 4chan as soon as this movie released
I believe Irene represents the river/water in the scorpion and the frog parable. She is typically calm, serene, and a source of peace and (emotional for Driver) sustinence. Due to external circumstances though, (the storm being Standard and the problems that come with him) she is a source of danger at the wrong place and the wrong time. She literally gives Driver water in this scene.
This movie helped me understand introverts. Just because he is introverted doesn't mean he doesn't care. He may just take 210+ seconds to respond to an emotional expression. Some are slower than others.
Tbf, he is not your regular introvert. He is a borderline psychopath with a really specific disorder. There are VERY obvious issues going on there beneath that exterior.
@@Izaan2810 IDK why I see this "psychopath" interpretation of driver so much. You can tell throughout that he genuinely hates the situation he finds himself in and is just taking whatever measures absolutely necessary to extriccate himself from it. For instance, you can tell in the strip club scene that he is beyond terrified of what he's doing with the hammer and the bullet. He's scared and acts in very human and emotional ways if you watch closely enough. He never came across as a cold blooded psychopath to me at any time in the film.
@@BustAcApInCoD50 I might be wrong, I admit. You put forward a great argument. Maybe he is not a psychopath. However, there's something just really out of the ordinary about this guy's behavior. There are definitely some underlying mental issues going on that refrain him from acting normally. He is a bit TOO stoic, for me to consider him as a regular introvert. And the way he shows expertise at killing and acts instantly without any hesitation. He shows zero regards for his own life as well. Something really melancholic and somber that also suggests massive loss at some point in history that he no longer cares to find any purpose in his life until Irene and the boy came into his life. My point is that, he is not your regular introvert.
@@Izaan2810 Driver is certaintly an engima of a person. Shannon describes him to Irene as walking into his shop about 5 or 6 years ago "right outta the blue" asking for a job and showed a savant level of proficiency in mechanics. He also tells Bernie, when it comes to Driver's abilities at the wheel that he's "special" and that he's "never seen anything like it."
I've seen interpretations that driver is deliberately acting as a movie archetype (cowboy, I would say) to express his masculinity and I think there is merit to that. He obviously has an affinity for film as he has pursued stunt driving and this can be seen as an extension of acting out his fantasies of being the archtypal hero. So his character is constantly "acting" and is detached from being a "real human being."
You don't know the real driver at all really, but maybe at the end he has fulfilled his fantasy of being a hero considering the scenario he just lived through in reality and can now go on to live a more "real" life. Why did Driver have the impulse to live this life though? You can only speculate since he seemed to appear out of thin air one day about 5 or 6 years ago.
I drive
"hey you want a toothpick ?"
bro is better than me with kids fr lol
I’ve never seen a more accurate depiction of how I talk to women
Thanks for the water.
He's literally me
Or Vice Versa?
how so ?
He is literally me
@@gagansingh9622 functioning autist
@nn4284 I've seen the literally me thing with Ryan Gosling like four years ago. I'm pretty sure it's been around on 4chan as soon as this movie released
This is such an awesome movie, slow paced but really really realistic
Realistic? He has minimal emotion. That's not normal lol. Most people have varied facial expressions.
@@BadMannerKorea i know people who responded that slow
Have you ever noticed that Ryan Gosling in every scene of this movie is literally me?
Yeah, you're right. I noticed he is pretty much me all the time.
1:38 He said the phrase!
Having never actually seen the movie I was really expecting a beat drop after that
ok but he literally me fr
1:37 at this part we says that "He is literally me "
I believe Irene represents the river/water in the scorpion and the frog parable. She is typically calm, serene, and a source of peace and (emotional for Driver) sustinence. Due to external circumstances though, (the storm being Standard and the problems that come with him) she is a source of danger at the wrong place and the wrong time. She literally gives Driver water in this scene.
New era taxi driver
Doesn't really go in on the themes of loneliness and mental instability the same way Taxi Driver does
He looks kinda lonly, i think i can fix that.
Imagine in this movie was film in the 2020s.
Girl: What to you do?
Ryan: I Drive.
Girl: like a Limo Driver?
Ryan: No, a Uber Driver.
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I drive
I drive
I Drive
I drive
I drive
Yeah i remember when i met her (he's literally me)
What a beautiful movie
James Dean died so Ryan Gosling could thrive
Robert De Niro lived so Ryan Gosling could drive
He had to learn that upstate NY accent instead of his normal London, Ontario accent. It's funny.
I drive
Literally me
He is literally me fr.
❤❤❤
Parenting 101
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I drive
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