When we drive on a commute, we go from a starting point to a destination. However, from the moment Tom Hardy chose his destination on his night train, the starting point gradually disappeared, and there was no possibility of returning.
The more he held the steering wheel, the more he didn't know where to go; the
more he pressed the accelerator, the more he lost his way.
The scenery of the highway is passing by, and it is not the place where you should stop and rest.
"Out of Control" is a hard to say good-looking movie, but it can definitely be said to be very powerful.
In the whole story, there is only one man driving a BMW, driving at night for 80 minutes, talking on the phone for 80 minutes, that's all.
There's no denying the lack of drama. An 80-minute drive is an 80-minute synchronous broadcast with no plot twists and few obvious climaxes.
"Out of Control" has some, only in the rush of the audience and Tom Hardy, the feeling of deprivation is gradually dismantled and exhausted.
But, that's the beauty of this film.
Extremely narrow to suffocating, but miraculously done in one go.
The engineer, played by Tom Hardy, runs all night to the hospital where his mistress is giving birth. His wife was shocked by his affair, and his colleagues were shocked by his dereliction of duty. With his untrustworthiness, the image of a good husband and a good supervisor also shattered and turned into crumbs. But he still made the phone calls without hesitation, not to save anything, just to clean up the dust.
He wanted to explain to his wife that he had only had an affair this time in his life (everything happened?);
he also had private phone calls with his colleagues, ignoring the position that the supervisor had fired him, insisting on directing the next day's bidding case from the air, even at the cost of deceive.
how so? As the plot progresses, we hear him talking to himself, and gradually we can learn that he is not saving broken relationships, but just fulfilling a sense of responsibility.
This sense of responsibility is also the main reason why he gave up his job and family and went to the land of his mistresses. He couldn't let go of the conscience condemnation of the child without a father, and because he hated that he had such a bad father. All the feelings are back to his own character.
During the ride, he faced everything.
He wanted to regain some dignity, so he struggled, trying to explain to his hysterical divorced wife that he had only had one affair (but the wife said enough), because of self-consciousness.
He wanted to preserve some reputation, so he struggled, and he was straddling the phone line to direct the next-day projects that he was not supposed to be unemployed, because of responsibility.
He wanted to make his son worry-free, so he struggled, knowing that his wife was furious at the other end and he had to lie to his son to rest assured that he would go back because of his father's love.
He wants to keep his mistress safe, so he struggles, holding back the prenatal blues he's patiently pacifying his mistress, while embarking on a trip to the hospital where he abandons his family and career because of his identity.
He transformed the accusations his wife vented on him into insults to his colleagues; he elevated the shadow of his childhood that emerged because of the mistress incident to the end of work that he was not obligated to do.
All this struggle shows: this is a small person.
Work is not bad, but not rich. Bad character, but not too bad. When he went out of business, he suddenly lost everything.
Therefore, the little man chose to struggle.
In the end, all the little people can do is: keep driving.
Non-stop, slowly, towards the dawn.
He embarked on a life with no turning back.
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Worth a book is that in "Out of Control" Tom Hardy Undoubtedly, it is the only prop of this one-man show.
He is not just the main card of the box office of this film, he is also the only actor in the whole film.
Of course the audience could also say that the voices that spoke to him - his wife, his son, his men, his supervisor, his mistress, his... - also featured voices, but their performance completely restricted. The voiceless face has lost its vision, and its characters have limited levels of response through dialogue. It can be said that the "voice" of each phone call is just a mirror image, projecting the faces of Tom Hardy's life on the people around him.
Only Tom Hardy displayed the greatest acting energy on the show. In the narrow car shell, every phone call revealed some kind of loss in life. Faced with the repeated calls, Tom Hardy showed a more and more gloomy expression from inexplicable to inexplicable. Let the unknown imprint on your face and body.
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