Baby Driver (2017) - Face The Music!

★★★☆☆

I thought Baby the getaway driver would pull off spectacular stunts or tricks in the end to make it look fancier and more romantic, but nope, instead he chooses to face the music. Well, it’s quite understandable, but for a fancy action film as it seems right from the opening through the middle, such an ending is more or less of a disappointment! Other than that, ‘Baby Driver’ is a lot of joy though it’s labeled a crime action that’s supposed to be pretty serious! You feel enjoyable while something supposedly nerve-wrecking and dangerous like a heist is taking place. And you’re kind of worry-free and easy when Baby’s performing his magic moves that are in fact very risky. Yeah, that’s the way the film makes you feel. It’s weird and surreal but fun and fresh!

Music is the soul of the film, since Baby can’t seem to get anything done without it. So you’re going to hear songs after songs right from the very beginning till the end. The film’s a perfect demonstration of music blending with sound effects or say, environmental noises so amazingly that it seems to go so smooth and groovy! It never ceases to amuse you till you know the final part, which is sort of a turnoff to me.

Facing the music is not everyone’s favorite thing to do. Most of the time, we tend to make up more excuses to back up what we’ve already done wrong. Yeah, as you know, right or wrong is always relative. But from a Buddhist point of view, whatever you’re doing that actually helps boost your ego is wrong, even if you seem to be doing it out of good intentions. That’s the hardest part of Buddhism because it’s never easy to kill your ego, the so-called ‘self’, that’s indeed very cunning. Sometimes it makes you face the music not to make you feel ashamed of what you’ve done wrong, but to make you feel much better instead about yourself having the courage to face it and want to make it right!