The Insatiables

Drive- Nicolas Winding Refn

*Editor’s note: If you haven’t seen the film, please stop reading now and do your best to avoid just about everything else that’s ever been written about it because maybe, just maybe, it is better to go in completely blind. I can’t begin to explain how badly I wanted to believe the hype and love this film intensely, but I just couldn’t. Throughout the film, Refn would do something that would excite me, leave me hopeful and then nothing would come of it. That being said, there was one fantastically transcendent moment so superior to the entire film that left me breathless, dizzy, ready to stand up and clap in the name of all that is wonderful about film and the cinema: this scene. In one tense and beautifully lit scene, Gosling and Mulligan share a kiss so electric, the lights in the dingy elevator threaten to blow out…and then he stomps the absolute shit out of a man’s head.