8) Drive – Love in an Elevator
Ok. This one takes a little context. There is a scene in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive which takes place in a lift. Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan are escaping the clutches of some very bad people and just as they are about to leave the city forever they enter a small elevator with another man, who happens to be a hitman.
You know something very, very bad is about to occur. Moving Carey Mulligan’s Irene slowly and deliberately as out of harm’s way as possible and he leans for a long, lingering and possibly final kiss. There is a Lynchian air to this heady mixture of romantic and the threat of extreme violence. What follows isn’t pretty, in fact it’s pretty scary. But once the deed is done Gosling steps out into the cold night air and turns back to Irene who is more affected by the kiss than the kill. Sublime.
