Drive My Car

I’m re-logging this because this film has become my all time favorite movie. There is so much I could say about this masterful work of art. Every detail, every shot, every pause—it’s all a part of the film’s vision. The movie is adapted from Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women, so Hamaguchi had some brilliant source material to work with. I watched this movie with no context, so it was magical when I realized Uncle Vanya would play such a large part in this story. As a cynical 22 year old-almost graduated-drama School senior, I feel far more attached to film than theatre. Uncle Vanya, however, will always be a play that hits me in the gut. Drive My Car captures what it means to be alive—or rather, why we choose to stay alive. Through the deepest pains of humanity, we must choose to persevere because it MATTERS.