Baby Driver
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Paramount+fuboTVParamount+Baby Driver is a 2017 action thriller film written and directed by Edgar Wright. It stars Ansel Elgort as Baby, a getaway driver seeking freedom from a life of crime with his girlfriend Debora.Wright views Baby's moral shift as the thematic crux of the film.[40] According to David Sims at The Atlantic, Baby's initial moral detachment manifests through his use of music as escapism from conflict and his tinnitus.[40] It is only his obligation to protect Debora and Joseph and the increasing mayhem around him that force Baby to confront reality.[40].
Unfortunately, this joyful, hope-filled vision lacks consistency once the tone of the film changes.From a director like Wright, this is a particular disappointment. In other films such as The World’s End or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the director uses aesthetics and genre tropes, including violence, to explore deeper themes or make self-aware commentary on a genre (or, often, both at once). Baby Driver, however, is a mere trifle that never moves beyond the surface level. It’s less a movie than a feature-length exercise in editing and sound design.
