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A friend of mine has a cottage by the coast. Said we can borrow it when you’re next on leave. White clapboard with blue-painted window frames.
Here. Something to think of while you’re away.
Atonement (2007) dir Joe Wright
Movie Review on “Baby Driver” (My I.R)
There are only a few times I walk out of a movie theater feeling good... This is the first time. I actually felt satisfied and happy about a movie after it was over.
Exhilarating. Powerful. Amazing. Fun. Cool. This is only a small sample of adjectives I want to use to describe this movie. Watching it on the big screen was worth it, eating that awkward combination of dark chocolate and greasy, salty bag of bad popcorn with a huge ass screen towering over me. This experience completely transported me into the sexy world of driving, crime, passion, and drama.
Joe Wright’s film will become a sexy summer time classic for years to come. It was in sync. Everything was a well-choreographed dance, the music and fluid movement of each and every actor on screen just made the pace and tone of the movie so right that you hardly noticed the passage of time outside the theater. You absorb everything on that screen that you fall into the illusion that you’re actually in it, witnessing this masterpiece at first hand; an incredible experience of being there. It had all the twist and turns of a thriller, that adrenaline shot of good chase scenes that the trailers promised (and more), the cute, touching, adorable scenes of romance between our two main love interests (without taking over the plot in order for it to be interesting), and yet there’s that childish, devilish, mischievousness of teenage guts, glory, and freedom that everyone just wants to have but could only exist on a rush that Wright delivers.
Even if what the main protagonist does is wrong (with Baby being a getaway driver and whatnot), you can’t help but cheer for him when he gets away. Even when he struggles (problems between moral dilemma and what’s the right choice in a certain situation, not to mention trying not to piss off some very dangerous people), you never see him hesitate as he jumps to the scene. Everything goes off like a gun, bam - bam - BAM!!
Baby (Ansel Elgort) isn’t afraid to be who he is -- it’s his advantage, his best weapon, his greatest play, and no judgment. Nothing to fear, nothing to feel sorry for. Even when he seems like he’s improvising, he knows all the right moves to play as he takes that stage. He’s unbeatable when he’s behind the wheel and he burns rubber on that smooth asphalt. Everything is constantly changing and moving, you never know who will be coming at you (the enemies and obstacles) or what consequences there’ll be, but why should that stop you from living?
Joe Wright’s film was sexy, fun; felt a little old, a little new, part of it was like a monologue about a ritual/ routine, part of it was like screwing everything over and doing what you can’t. Even when it does get tense and a little gory (really scary that gun dealer scene but I loved that final showdown!) it’s a movie anyone would love. A movie where when there’s a world of risks and opportunities and consequences, being a (lovable, playful) child and being a (hardass) adult go hand in hand. Overall, I will definitely give this movie a 5-star rating.
If you’re reading this, find the closest movie theater and watch this damn movie (it could only be experienced on a huge screen). If it’s still there. Seriously though, go ahead and watch it, it’s alot of fun and what better way to celebrate summer (the season of freedom and Carpe Diem) than watching this movie and good company to surround you.
P.S - A little note from me: I.R means initial response to the movie. I wrote this rough draft of this review like right after I stepped outside after it was over. I was bombarded with so many feelings that I didn’t want to lose them. If you’re waiting for an in depth analysis, covering more techinical detailed terms of the film, then you’re most likely gonna wait forever. (Maybe I’ll do that when it comes out on DVD?) I love you my fellow movie watchers!
Trivia from Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE — 2005, dir. Joe Wright
JAMES MCAVOY in ATONEMENT dir. Joe Wright
“We are all fools in love.” In this film, I hope we achieved the expression of how difficult it is to fall in love, of how painful, and how terrifying and scary it is to let yourself fall in love. — Joe Wright during director’s commentary of Pride & Prejudice.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005 | dir. Joe Wright
In this film, I hope we achieved the expression of how difficult it is to fall in love, of how painful, and how terrifying and scary it is to let yourself fall in love. — Joe Wright during director’s commentary of Pride & Prejudice.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005 | dir. Joe Wright
We are all fools in love.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE — 2005, dir. Joe Wright
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.“
Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. (insp.)
ATONEMENT 2007, dir. Joe Wright
Sunlight in Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright
21 FILMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright
Matthew Macfadyen as Mr Darcy PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005)
"Your hands are cold."
Pride and Prejudice (2005), Joe Wright
The beauty of 'Pride and Prejudice' (2005), dir. Joe Wright.
They couldn't make Mr. Darcy seem anymore uncomfortable in his living skin for every second of Pride and Prejudice.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) | dir. Joe Wright
MATTHEW MACFADYEN as MR. DARCY | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)