- I think his name is Daryl. He looks like a Daryl.
- Lesson: never trust a scorpion.
- Ok, Gosling is so cool. Every guy after watching this movie has a serious conversation internally with himself on how he can best accomplish becoming Ryan Gosling. This is a fact.
- The soundtrack is amazing. A must to buy if you have any respectable taste in music.
- Brooks was great. Cranston was great. The film was great. Fuck you Oscars.
- Refn may have gone overboard on the stylized violence in some people's opinion, but I found it to work. This type of storytelling has it's place and this is one of them. The elevator scene in particular is genius. As the viewer we already are privy to the driver's capabilities when it comes to violence. But here we witness for the first time his deep affection for Mulligan's character and then Blam!, he bashes a man's skull in. We also get to see Mulligan's character witness for the first time this totally other side of the driver - the violent, dangerous side. And as the elevator door closes separating the two of them, we now know that all the cards are on the table and begin to wonder if they will ever see each other again and if so, can they even be together anymore.
- While Refn said it was not intentional, I do like how the blinking game from earlier in the film sort of reappears at the very end. And, spoiler alert, I would have rather seen the film end with the alternate ending that was proposed: he drives away and stops at a red light, camera pans up, light turns green, and car doesn't move forward. Hinting at his death from the wounds he sustained. But I don't really like happy endings so that's just me.