{"id":21771,"date":"2014-10-20T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21771"},"modified":"2016-08-08T01:43:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T05:43:05","slug":"big-driver-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/big-driver-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Driver (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bigdriver\"<\/a>I\u2019m personally a fan of revenge thrillers, and am quite surprised to see Stephen King of all people concoct a rape revenge thriller. Out of the sub-genre, they\u2019re the most notorious of the sub-sub-genres. \u201cBig Driver\u201d is an often toothless and ridiculous rape revenge thriller about a writer who may possibly be going mad after being viciously and repeatedly raped in a road side gas station by a hulking driver. He\u2019s known as \u201cBig Driver,\u201d and is a very menacing and horrific villain. That is until the narrative unfolds and then he becomes a cartoon. It\u2019s not enough that he may possibly be a trucker that had an impulse to rape and victimize a gorgeous woman on an abandoned road.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not enough that perhaps he has snared his share of victims in the past. No, King has to keep piling on absurd twists and turns with our villain Big Driver, while pretending to say something about writers. Truly, the writers\u2019 psyche can be a maddening and unusual place, but for Tess Thorne, she\u2019s a woman who\u2019s been victimized one too many times and has an odd selection of friends. She has her characters from her book series about knitting elderly women solving crimes, her GPS named Tom (the only trustworthy man in her life), a cat named Fritz, and a neighbor who may or may not be romantically involved with Thorne.<\/p>\n

Nothing is ever really confirmed for the audience, as every element of the plot is thrown up in to the air and never really resolved. At one point it\u2019s suggested the stylish revenge plot is all in Tess\u2019s mind but it\u2019s never confirmed. Then we\u2019re told that her confrontation with Big Driver was planned. \u201cThat\u2019s a little far fetched,\u201d Tess thinks aloud. But lo and behold, it\u2019s not too far fetched the primary narrative itself. And by god King goes all the way, with a dramatic confrontation, and an abrupt final scene that may or may not be one big imaginary sequence in Tess\u2019 slowly unraveling mind. What is the horrendous life Tess had? Why does Tess come across another victimized woman? What insight does this moment lend her exactly?<\/p>\n

Is Tom the imagining of an ex-boyfriend or just a creation of Tess\u2019s to compensate for her lack of romance? If Tess really is so closed off to everyone, why does she live in such an open suburban neighborhood? And what of the loose ends like Tess taking a limo home after being raped? No one really reported her injuries? I\u2019m not sure if \u201cBig Driver\u201d is supposed to be a meta-thriller about a writer who enacts revenge through means that seem almost too good to be realistic, and the almost ridiculous sequence of events are intentionally silly, but \u201cBig Driver\u201d is too haphazardly written and sloppily directed to really answer that for the audience. In the end, it\u2019s a terrible thriller with more head scratching questions than answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m personally a fan of revenge thrillers, and am quite surprised to see Stephen King of all people concoct a rape revenge thriller. Out of the sub-genre, they\u2019re the most notorious of the sub-sub-genres. \u201cBig Driver\u201d is an often toothless and ridiculous rape revenge thriller about a writer who may possibly be going mad after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[64,120,240,337,477,703,820,840,982,1087,1130],"class_list":["post-21771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-b","tag-crime","tag-exploitation","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-rape","tag-revenge","tag-stephen-king","tag-thriller","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21773,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions\/21773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}