Life, Doc forces him back into the game to pull off a heist at a post office. But just as Baby believes he's paid his debt to Doc and is free to go about Shares his passion for music and yearns to escape her mundane life. He cares for an elderly deaf man named Joseph (CJ Jones) and falls for a young waitress named Debora (Lily James) who He's eager to start a new life for himself with the small sums Baby is working to pay off a debt owed to Doc, and he's just about done. But circumstances have led him to work with Doc (Kevin Spacey), aĬriminal and de facto father figure who has Baby under his thumb, forcing him to drive getaway for the various heists he plans and the criminals heĮmploys. The grace of Mozart and the edge of Hendrix. Rarely does sight and sound compliment one another so well, so organically, with the character driven by his ears butīaby, yes, Baby, as in B-a-b-y (Ansel Elgort), is the best driver in Atlanta, and one would be hard-pressed to find one better than him anywhere.īarely old enough to be considered an adult, he lives his life between his earbuds and functions fully only when fueled by his music. Babyĭriver finds just the right beat, never feels self-aware, never crams the music in only because Wright seemed to like a song or had to stretch Cameron Crowe is an expert, the Guardians of the Galaxy films have made the soundtrack the lifeblood of the movies. Music as a critical storytelling mechanic isn't unique to Baby Driver.
Stream, and rewrites his DNA with each new beat. The story is told through both the visual and aural mediums, eachĬomplimenting and reinforcing the other, all the while shaping the character from the inside out, as if the music enters his ears, gets into his blood Who lives by soundtracks of his own mixing and even his own making. The lead is a character whose life is defined by Something amazing: he gives the movie, and its lead character, a unique pulse and take on life. Might throw a few good car chases and violent shootouts on the screen but ultimately crack under the weight of its own unoriginality. Indeed, Writer/Director Edgar Wright's ( Hot Fuzz) film has all the makings of a drive-by sort of movie, a film Himself and everything and everyone he's ever cared for in danger. He falls in love, wants out of the game, but he's forced back in, putting Thumb of a dangerous criminal, is forced into duty as a getaway driver. Reviewed by Martin Liebman, October 6, 2017īaby Driver wouldn't appear to offer much of interest if one were to just glance at a quick plot outline: a young skilled driver, under the
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