What up err'body. It's been a while because I've been pretending my problems are worse than everybody else's. Then my Mum phones me and confirms that my problems are the worst and nobody else matters because I'm here only son and now the cat's dead she has nothing else to care for.
CAT
Grumpy. she ded.
This talk of death brings me on to the purpose of this post however;
Only God Forgives
Or as the un-educated bastards amongst us like to refer to it 'I thought it was going to be like Drive part 2.'
It isn't. It wasn't ever going to be. Drive, to all intents and purposes is the only normal-ish film Nicolas Winding Refn has ever made. I don't think people even know he directed Bronson and everybody saw that during the 'Oh my god Tom Hardy is the best thing ever' phase circa 2011-12.
Only God Forgives is out on DVD to own on Monday which is nice if you are a film collector but it means it does not come with the added satisfaction of watching old people leave the cinema half way through.
If this is a problem, perhaps invite all your family round for a Christmas-ish buffet and use the film as a house-clearing tool once you are fed up of making small talk with people you barely see.
Gosling spends the ninety minutes sort of just standing up, looking moody. Symmetrical, but moody. Although I'm unsure as to how many fan girls will have actually seen Gosling standing up for the full duration of the movie before they decided that looking at the posters on their bedroom wall would be much less challenging.
It's definitely not acting gold but it's hard not to admire him for taking on such an unorthodox role. Unless he just doesn't like talking and it's nothing but an act of laziness.
At one point Gosling fists his dead mother's corpse (Kristin Scott Thomas) which is nice. 'Fisting Scott Thomas' was originally going to be the title of this post but after I ran it through an image search I had to delete Google Chrome and acid bath my eyeballs as I never found quite what I was looking for.
To summarise I've no idea if you should watch it or not & if you've seen it before I'm fairly certain you won't be too bothered about putting yourself through it again.
Thanks for letting me waste your time.
