I will not divulge specifics, but as is the case with most movies of this sort, something goes horribly wrong.
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Driver decides to help by masterminding a heist. It starts when Irene’s husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), is released from prison although he clearly loves his family and has promised never to get back into a life of crime, an unpaid debt threatens his life and the lives of his wife and child. Regardless, he’s dropped into the middle of their drama and works tirelessly towards freeing them from it. If there are any personal reasons for his vested interest in Irene and Benicio, they have been kept from the audience. So far as I can tell, Driver is a deus ex machina – a character at the mercy of a contrived situation he has no connection with.
What I really wanted, above all else, was something concrete. But therein lies the problem: They’re only possibilities. Exactly who was Driver before moving to Los Angeles? On the basis of what he does during the latter portions of the film, the possibilities are more than a little disturbing. When it comes to someone like that, a behavioral explanation is mandatory. The same cannot be said for a man trained to do J-turns and powerslides.
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When it comes to a samurai character, suspension of disbelief is easy the audience is free to assume that he has been conditioned his entire life in the ways of an assassin. Not only is Driver maddeningly unsolvable, he also has no plausible reason for being the way he is.
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But there’s a very fine line between mystique and underdevelopment, and I think this movie crosses it. Warriors are traditionally elusive and sealed, which is part of their mystique. Well, almost completely although his face never changes expression apart from the occasional smirk, and although he so rarely says what he feels (you can count on one hand the number of lines Gosling delivers), he opens himself emotionally for his neighbor, a woman named Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio (Kaden Leos), both of whom will inevitably wind up in danger. Although he’s not a warrior in the traditional sense, Driver is as starkly developed as a samurai – narrowly focused, deeply committed, an expert at what he does, and completely impenetrable. By night, he’s a wheelman for criminals in need of a quick getaway.
By day, he works for a mechanic named Shannon (Bryan Cranston) and is an occasional Hollywood stunt driver. It’s a fitting description, given the way cars factor into his daily life. In Drive, Ryan Gosling plays a man who isn’t given a proper name.
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