A long time ago, as a young filmmaker besotted with the hard-boiled pleasures of classic Hollywood, Jean-Luc Godard claimed that all anyone needed to make a film was a girl and a gun. But in his new movie, “Drive,” Nicolas Winding Refn, in thrall to a later Hollywood tradition, tests out a slightly different formula. In this case all you need is a guy and a car. “Drive” has a low investment compared to other Hollywood movies, but it’s definitely a better movie, when lying in the couch or bed, watching “Drive” is a perfect enjoyment, just download a dvd to ipad ripper or figure out how to transfer dvd to ipad from PC, then experience the exciting driving in “Drive”– Ryan Gosling and a late-model silver Chevy Impala, the most popular car in Los Angeles. Ryan Gosling — his character has no known proper name, and is variously referred to as “the driver,” “the kid” and “him” — and to watch him steer through Los Angeles at night is to watch a virtuoso at work. Behind the wheel of a getaway car after an uninteresting, irrelevant and almost botched robbery, the driver glides past obstacles and shakes off pursuers, slowing down as often as he accelerates and maintaining a steady pulse rate even as the soundtrack winds up the tension to heart attack levels.

In daytime, he is a car stunt actor in Hollywood, but at night, he helps criminal run away from crime scene. Carey Mulligan plays a woman whose husband had been to jail, and she is Ryan’s neighbor, Ryan has a crush on her, so he helps her husband rob pawnshops, but what he doesn’t know he is involved in a gang conspiracy. The most unforgettable scene to me is in the backstage in a strip club, Ryan standing there, among a bunch of naked strippers, making a phone call to his opponent, and the camera shots showed those bodies calmly, with no shy, combined with cool silent Ryan, you can see the perfect blend of eroticism and literature. I think only Ryan can express that feeling, he is not the traditional handsome man, but he has his characteristic that other Hollywood actors don’t have. He has a baby face, but when he acts a violent man like in “Drive”, you won’t feel strange or weird, and this year is  a terrific year for Ryan Gosling. From “Crazy Stupid Love” to “Drive” and now “Ides of March”, Sandra Bullock’s one-time toyboy seems to have emerged as the most employable actor in Hollywood. Well deserved status too, what with how good he is in each film.