2013 Directed by Steven Knight
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
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as someone who hates driving AND confrontation, this movie is classified under "horror" for me
Locke is a single location film that takes place in real time. If ever there was a recipe for disaster it is with this type of film. It is unbelievably difficult to get right. More often than not films like this fail because of the constraints their own setting enforces upon them.
Locke understands this very well and does what it should do. Keep it simple. The plot is straightforward and related to us through phone calls and internal conversations Locke has with his dead father. We are presented with a calm and collected man who, at the beginning of the film, after some consideration decides to go right instead of left. He is going on a long drive and…
One of my favorite hobbies is to just go driving. I love it for two reasons:
1) No matter what is happening in the world or in ones's life, behind the wheel of the car you are totally in control of your immediate environment.
2) It occupies enough mental concentration to break down my defenses and allow me to think.
Locke is the story of a perfectionist who made a mistake, of a man on the road driving to be by the side of a woman he barely knows who is having a baby he caused. He is driving away from his family and from his job, determined to face the situation in the way he believes most honorable. It's a strong point for nurture over nature as well as the profound effects of childhood, that his ideas of what the honorable course of action should be are entirely based on his own experiences with his father's absence.
after watching this i've come to a sudden realization that
we are all tom hardy stans first and human beings second
Tom Hardy’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Concrete (But Were Afraid to Ask).
I rarely will declare a rating right after I watch a film. Usually, I’ll log it, and let it drift around my subconscious for a day or more, and then usually not until I’ve thoroughly thought it through while compositing a review. Not Locke. I knew I considered it a masterpiece right away, and worthy of a full five stars.
Two handers are difficult to pull off, and that was only emphasized even further to me during my recent viewing of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay’s performances in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years. The success was the subtle depth that lurked beneath the banal that was encoded in the script, and perfectly realized by two experienced veterans at the peak of…
Locke is a 2013 British drama film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Tom Hardy and the voices of Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels, Tom Holland, and Bill Milner. Locke's storyline follows Ivan Locke on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career and the scenarios that change his life.
As I'm trying to get through the A24 films, this one jumped out to me straight away. Tom Hardy is a phenomenal actor and having him be the only one on screen for 85 minutes is a unique and interesting way to develop a storyline. There will be many out there that have no time for Locke due to its setup and unique style…
