i think i have a different interpretation of the elevator scene than everyone else because this is NOT a "do you still want me" look this is a "i know what ive done and i know you're leaving and i never wanted you to see this side of me"... he did not think he was impressing her!show more

the kiss is a farewell. that's him saying goodbye. he knows that killing that man in the elevator, no matter how noble his reasons or intentions are, will drive irene away from him. doubly when he loses himself in it !!

he's not great at Expressing emotions but i think he's more emotionally intelligent than i've seen a lot of people make him out to be. IMO he's more autistic than he's sociopathic, which i believe has been stated by refn but id have to find the interview

"who is saying this" You are validating me heavily. because i was seeing tweets pop up on my tl that were getting a decent amt of likes and no one challenging them and i thought i was going crazy

okay well while you're all here have you heard put me in the car by ryan gosling and do you want to see snoopy dancing to it

how can anyone stare at his face and think in the end he wanted to IMPRESS her???? not even just his face but his body posture too it’s so slumped/sad, he knows she’s never seeing him again hes just trying to say sorry for it but that he also understands why she’s leaving like?

THATS WHAT IM SAYING it's part of what impacted me the most abt this scene so seeing even one person misinterpret it has left me spiraling lmfao but there's been enough people that i'm like. did i watch a different movie???

I'm so confused how anyone could see this scene differently 😭 his facial expressions say everything

@franknteddy ryan puts so much work into his expressions thats why it drives me crazy when ppl take it any other way lmfaoo

!!! U GET IT. i think it’s also the first time someone (& someone he cares about especially) has seen That side of him & he’s confronted with a real reaction to what he does. and there’s a second where he looks so scared & guilty ab it, and he knows he’s lost her

even in the hallway where she slaps him for being involved w standards death !! a real, physical reaction to what he really does, the danger it comes with and having to manage the fallout of what happens when it goes wrong

right ?? like up until then he’s still justifying it almost (“i still got the money, you can have it, you can leave with benicio”) & then she slaps him, & it’s the first time someone’s seen that & shown him this is wrong, regardless of why you’re doing it, even if it was for her

people thought he was trying to impress her??? 😭 that was a goodbye kiss even though he was hoping it wouldn’t be :( he just wanted to keep her safe and this obviously wasn’t it 🥲

yes loll. + his goal the wholee movie has been protecting irene, if being with her would put her in danger he knows he'd have to cut her off, even if she Didn't want to stop seeing him... its just extra tragic that she ends up seeing a side of him he's been trying so hard to hide

I’m sorry there were people that thought he thought he was impressing her and didn’t see the complete horror upset and shame on his face?????

yes 😭

yeah wow i didnt even know ppl thought he was trying to impress her here. he looks like a dog who just got caught doing something he wasnt supposed to b doing

No it’s this ITS EXACTLY THIS

i've weirdly seen a chunk of ppl acting like he thought this would impress her and like??? no????? he looks like he's about to throw up?????????

Exactly! He’s devastated about the situation. He knows this is officially the end of his peace with her.

your thread is such a perfect interpretation of his character omg id love to hear you talk more about him!!! also im shocked this scene would be taken any other way???? from the moment they stepped into that elevator, i knew it was a farewell

i was also shocked lollll. i think that's why ive been so peeved over it, rygos does so much work with his facial expression and body language that its not really That open ended to me 😭😭

Yeah no shit

yesss it's exactly this...that look he gives her...he knows he's gone past the point of no return and there's no going back to how things were before :( not to mention besides their expressions/body language, there's a literal door closing in both their faces

the shot of the door closing is soo good... he just knew walking into the elevator that once she saw that side of him he could never reverse it :(

unfortunate example of a movie getting too popular among people who can't read movies. almost all of Refn's filmography is about how violence permeates and destroys the good in people's lives

Favorite part is the colors. Orange and blue, contrasting colors, because they live in different worlds, and now they can see it... there's no life together for them...

@rockyandgrace people thought otherwise ?? It’s so funny seeing the sigma male fandom completely misinterpret his entire personality

@Lynxxxiscool it's not even exclusive to the sigma male side it also extends to some ppl on goslingtwt side of things😭

@krism0ris EXACTLY OHMYGOD

You are so correct. That's pain in his eyes as he loses the last thing that made him feel normal. Like he doesn't have Shanon anymore, and now he's lost Irene like... Driver misinterpreters make me want to chew my laptop

Exactly. He knows this is it and he has to disappear from her life because if he stays it’ll never be normal. It’ll never be the same after this. It doesn’t matter the reason, it’s really just that he does it

THANK YOU!! I was so surprised to see so many people unironically saying he was doing it to impress Irene when I got the impression that no matter what he did to protect them, he’d likely never get to see her or Benicio again 😭

some people think of this as “do you still want me” ????

i've unfortunately seen multiple people say this

OH MY GOD…. never got that from driver at all

It's genuinely just an expression that yells out "I'm so fucking sorry"

i actually thought it’s so obvious and then i saw everyone online saying anything but that and😭😭

i absolutely baffles me people see it otherwise

fr, the movie does such a good job of NOT romanticising violence, showing the worst parts of it (child seeing his father get beat up & said father dying due to his own violent decisions, + every death being GRAPHIC), and driver doesnt get a pass either. but "literally me" amirite

Everyone's so illiterate they can't even read facial expressions now lol

I got this on my watch, I was amazed by how Gosling conveyed all of that in his face, I can't believe ppl have such an incel-ish interpretation of that scene

The scene literally ends with the scorpion on his back. He's stung, it's over, time to drown.

if a cis dude's favorite movie is drive RUN BITCH

who thought that in the first place

: (( baby

@fbumpsituation i love him so muchhhhhh 😭😭😭

holy shit does ANYONE actually fucking think the latter is the intended interpretation? Or is this just how women selectively interpret the scene through how much it turns them on?

100% agree w this actually ☝️☝️ I kinda saw this as that one scene from invincible where Mark kills levi after he hurt his mom aa

YES!! THIS IS HOW I SEE IT TOO!! he's not trying to seduce her back, he's saying goodbye, and apologizing for what he is, i think!!!

Hey, some of us saw this movie in theaters and understood the intention. Not all of us wanted to buy the jacket, cmon

I did not realize people thought the elevator scene meant anything else, of course she's never gonna wanna be around him after he stomps a man's head into mashed potatoes. Always thought that final look carried a shame and apology on Ryan's face too

Wait, people thought that he was impressing her?