Video games and forgiveness
Controversial. The new movie of Drive's director wasn't welcome at last Cannes Film Festival. The temple of author's films. And I can understand why. In that festival they reject Gaspar Noé 's Irreversible for his violence and almost the same happened with Only God Forgives . First point. Violence. It isn't new that Nicolas Winding Refn likes violence, all his movies were full of it. Rude, brutal but at least he filmed how is it. Not nice, cruel. Critics likes his sophisticated style in Drive because the violence was less obvious, never appear in the screen. Now those critics refused his new movie to show it all, without respect to the eyes audience, as violence doesn't have respect for anybody. Second point. Style. Drive is clean more than the rest. Winding Refn control the tempo, the city lights aesthetic, the rythim of the story, that's what the critics appreciate and now some of they said that he abused of that too much in Only God Forg...