

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt's roaming tracking shots are pure adrenaline poetry.
Acting
Gosling's silent desperation vs. Cooper's crumbling ambition.
Direction
Cianfrance's three-act structure guts you three separate times.

Director
Derek Cianfrance
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The bank robbery scenes were shot in one continuous take with Gosling actually riding through real traffic.
Cianfrance conceived this as a triptych about fathers and sons; the middle act was originally written as a separate film before merging with Luke's story.
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