Thursday, November 27, 2014
Alone in a car with himself
You can be alone and have all the "ghosts" in your life come alive.
Especially in a car. Driving. The world is around you but you are still alone with the thoughts and phantasms that come in such a situation.
It is not like reflection it is more like a meditation. Focus is on another thing while everything comes pouring into the space available.
Such is the situation in the film
with Tom Hardy behind the wheel and on the phone throughout.
He is on the way to be with the woman with whom he had a one night stand. Who is now having his baby.
During the trip he talks to the woman, his boss, his friend at work, his boss and his wife who finds out what is going on during the ride.
There are moments when this all seems contrived but by the end it is quite real and totally absorbing.
I would not mind seeing it again. That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: films
