I saw a couple of YouTube videos about Edgar Wright's filmmaking yesterday before seeing Baby Driver.
Posted by
Mop (aka Rburriel)
Jul 9 '17, 18:29
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No doubt, cinematically he's great fun. And Baby Driver was visually a joy. The long cuts, like Baby walking down the street to get coffee, were great. I enjoyed the diachotamy of Baby being a wiz in a car but walking down the street, he keeps bumping into people. The musical accompaniment is very clever.
But narratively, it's got the same problems as with his other movies. His got the same hate for humanity of Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich. People die indiscriminately and we're not supposed to care unless it's a protagonist, except that in this movie almost all the protagonists are psychopaths so we don't care if they die, so there's little emotional connection. Baby shows some humanity in regards to the victims but not enough to call off the last heist. Debora is a prop in the movie to give Baby some emotional gravitas, a catastrophic failure of the Bechdel Test. Baby's step-father has more meaning than Debora. It's visually stunning and emotionally devoid.
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