Winding Refn".
It is very strange to me that this is the first time I review anything by Nicolas Winding Refn here. I love this director and his style a lot. The movie Drive is perhaps the best introduction to him that you could ever get. It is his fastest paced movie ( apart from maybe Bronson ). He likes to be very slow. Drive is paced more or less like a normal film. That is why, if you want to start getting yourself into Nicolas Winging Refn I would recommend starting from Drive.
From my review of Drive you probably know that I like the taste of Nicolas Winding Refn's cock. And in this review I will be sucking his cock once again, while drooping saliva all of his masterpiece Only God Forgives.
In a nutshell, the movie feels like a mash between Adrian Lyne's Flashdance, Damien Chazelle's Babylon, Ti West's MaXXXine and Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, well stirred and served in a colorful presentation straight from Nicolas Winding Refn.
A lot of people say about Vampire's Kiss that if not for Nicolas Cage, it would not have worked. I'm of an opinion that the only person that could change Nick in the movie, would be Jim Carrey. If you like movies where Jim Carrey goes bananas and you want to see a very similar level of bananas but from a different actor, watch Vampire's Kiss. Nick acted his ass off in this film.
Today I saw a movie called "Matchstick Men" made with $62 million which grossed only $65 million, but in my opinion should have made more. I mean we have a director of Alien and Gladiator - Ridley Scott. The lead actor is the amazingly over the top - Nicolas Cage. And a wonderful script by Ted Griffin who wrote Ocean's Eleven. And like Oceans Eleven it's a comedy about con artists.
The best example of what I'm talking about is a Nickolas Winding Refn's movie "Only God Forgives" which could be followed by looking at what you see in the frame, but that will leave a lot of questions. And a lot of it is very silly unless you can figure out a deeper meaning behind all of it.
While on the other hand European movies are more open about sexuality. Directors from Europe like Danish filmmakers Lars Von Trier and Nicolas Winding Refn, French Luc Besson, Maïmouna Doucouré and Gaspar Noé, Italian Luca Guadagnino and many others are notorious for near pornographic ( if not entirely pornographic ) depictions of sex or explorations of sexual taboos in films like Nymphomaniac, The Neon Demon, Léon: The Professional, Cuties, Love and Call Me By Your Name to name a few.