Drive

Camilla Broccolo

Ryan Gosling’s role in Taxi Driver was an interesting role.  As usual he portrayed a good-looking, mysterious guy that a pretty girl in distress falls for. However, the communication between these characters was minimal.  This made the movie confusing, because it made me wonder whose movie it actually was.  It could have been Ryan Gosling’s movie, because he was in the majority of the scenes, but it also could have been Carey Mulligan’s movie because it followed her loss with her husband and her connection with Ryan Gosling.  The lack of dialogue also brought an aspect of mystery to the characters.  The audience was not really let into the lives of the characters because of the lack of dialogue.  Because of this it was hard to read the emotions of the characters unless they were physically showing their emotions.  I think this method, was successful for this movie because of the plot, and the actors playing the characters (ryan gosling is nice to look at)  but I think that in another movie it would have been incredibly unsuccessful.