a5c7b9f00b Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Debora, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? Indebted to Doc, the icy Atlanta crime lord, Baby, the youthful, talented, but hesitant getaway driver, for years now, has been the constant unstoppable force behind the kingpin's masterfully-planned daring heists. Always in sync with his carefully-chosen playlists, whether he's burning rubber or strolling down the street, Baby needs just one more job to get off the hook–and maybe–even go out on a proper date with the charming waitress, Debora. Caught up in the bliss of a whirlwind romance, Baby desperately wants out; however, as things get out of hand, will the young designated driver be able to protect those he loves? What is the movie Baby Driver about in one sentence? A young man who becomes a criminal and does not want to be a criminal any longer. <br/><br/>Baby Driver is a movie about being conflicted. It is worth seeing, but might leave you questioning the meaning of the story. It is a great movie that I thought had a very good moral lesson. The problem is that in order to get to the moral of the story you have to first get through the film with its many plot holes, questions, and cartoonish criminal characters.<br/><br/>What makes the movie unique is that the main character Baby has a constant ring in his ears. To drown it out he plays music off his iPod and throughout the film we are treated to his song choices. The viewer is literally listening to whatever Baby is listening to at an given moment. The way the scenes are linked up to the music is one of the best aspects of this film. The best chase seen in this film does not even require a car. <br/><br/>The trailer really hypes this film up with the cars. This is NOT a car movie. It is NOT a driver movie either. It is a crime/heist movie.<br/><br/>The viewer is never really given much more than a small sentence about how Baby became a part of his criminal group. He owes the leader Doc. That is it. And because of that it is hard to understand the aspect of confliction with the main character in this movie. This is unlike the heist classic Heat, where the criminals make no apologies for who they are. In the movie Heat the criminals are professionals in their minds and what they do is what they do. It is their job. In Baby Driver, the criminals are idiots and you are constantly wondering why Baby ever agrees to work with any of them. He has to work with them but he does not have to work with them?? This is actually a question you will come away with while watching this film. <br/><br/>There is a quote that comes up in this film that I guess was supposed to be the moral of the story? But I really could not understand what the moral of the story was supposed to be because I had never been shown how Baby ended up where he was now at his age. <br/><br/>I liked the ending because at least it was somewhat real life. Baby's words to Debora are what this film was about in my opinion. Director Edgar Wright said everyone will have their opinion of the ending and its meaning. Many viewers will end up debating the meaning of how the movie Baby Driver ends.<br/><br/>The film is unique because you see the world through Baby Driver's music. But that is through his ears and not his eyes, and after seeing the movie, there were parts of it that left me feeling very confused. Or was that the point? With the current cinema and film scene becoming increasingly stagnant and repetitive it may seem like there is not an original idea left in Hollywood. Ongoing super hero titles and endless remakes have become the norm and have pushed many away from theaters to streaming sites. It takes a film like Baby Driver to prove to me that this trend can change and that there maybe is some hope for future motion pictures.<br/><br/>If i had to sum up the film in one word it would have to be 'satisfying'. I went into the film thinking it would fit into the heist/car chase genre, when really you could argue that its true focus is on music and the way in which characters interact with it both knowingly and unknowingly. The incredible attention to detail and direction by Edgar Wright is a triumph with the rhythm of the soundtrack assisting with pacing and in the understanding of the main protagonist's (Baby's) character traits. <br/><br/>Speaking of 'Baby' Ansel Elgort plays the role very well. In fact, all play the roles very well with Kevin Spacey standing out for me (although i feel like my love for House of Cards may be influencing my decision). Whilst the film does not have a plethora of characters all are memorable from the main cast to the smaller roles.<br/><br/>In summary if you like Edgar Wright, you will like this film. If you like music, you will like this film. If you are human, you will like this film. With so many franchise films taking center stage at the moment (Avengers, Cars 3 etc) i implore you to go and see this extremely satisfying film experience A crime-flick love story as Pop-conscious as Wright's earlier work but unironic about its romantic core, it will delight the director's fans but requires no film-geek certification.
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