2014 · crime · mystery · thriller
Big Driver
Directed by Mikael Salomon1h 27m2014
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
Our read: Big Driver (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- intimate
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