Seattle Metro Used Cars Your Used Car Connection

Drive Ryan Gosling

At Seattle Metro Used Cars, we enjoy a good movie as much as anyone else.  Throw gorgeous cars and exciting chases into the mix and we will even buy the popcorn (you need to get up and go for the refill though–not negotiable).  From time to time, we will share with you a great movie with amazing cars that we saw.  Today, we will take you for a Drive with Ryan Gosling.

As some sort of urban cowboy who roams the lawless LA streets in a vast array of vehicles, Ryan Gosling plays an unnamed auto mechanic who moonlights as a getaway driver.  His crippled boss at the garage, Shannon, (Played Walter White, aka, Bryan Cranston) also sets up the night gigs.  Giving his passengers five minutes exactly to complete their heist (down to the second), Gosling evades police by outmaneuvering with skill and outwitting, knowing the back alleys and darkened side streets of Los Angeles like the back of his driving-gloved hand.  A strange, silent, and lonely individual, Driver befriends angelic Irene (played by Carey Mulligan), a mother with a young son who is awaiting her husband (Oscar Isaac) to be released from prison.

After being battered by some mafia muscle upon his return home, Standard, Irene’s husband, confides to Driver he owes money for protection from when he was inside, and the price is escalating with each passing day.  For the good of Irene, Driver agrees to drive Standard so he can cash in on a major score.  Things go south quickly as the deal goes wrong.

Without giving too much away, there are an innumerable amount of reasons to check out Drive.  Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn constructs exquisitely  violent scenes which are offset with a delightfully techno, poppy soundtrack.  Gosling, handsome as ever, plays his most awkward, uncertain character since The Believer or  The United States of Leland (We will omit his lead role on the Fox Kids classic Young Hercules) , though there is something irresistibly endearing about his stoic strangeness.  His character speaks with silence, having a so few lines for a lead role.  Visually electric with settings adorned with neon lights and larger-than-life caricature characters, the film’s world is one you wished you lived in, but just for a minute.  But of all the reasons to love Drive, one of them has to be how it reminds us how cool driving can be.

The movie creates excellent driving scenes on a regular basis, whether it’s Gosling jumping a red light in front of a squad car or languidly cruising down a sun-splashed afternoon street (the kind of sunlight that makes dancing dust particles look fascinating) in a 1973 Malibu.  It hits you that driving around town with nothing to do, in a great ride with sunglasses on, and a good tune on the radio is a pretty awesome way to spend a day.

Seattle Metro Used Cars gives Drive it’s seal of approval.  See us today to drive a car as cool as the ones seen in the movie.