Oscars 2022: DRIVE MY CAR review
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4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
PRE-OSCARS REVIEW: As part of our 2022 Oscars prep we review DRIVE MY CAR.
Synopsis: An aging, widowed actor seeks a chauffeur. The actor turns to his go-to mechanic, who ends up recommending a 20-year-old girl. Despite their initial misgivings, a very special relationship develops between the two.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a brunch pre- Oscars mini podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | It contains spoilers, but we can't imagine you care if you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers. |
| 0:06.5 | There's no way you would logically seek out a podcast about the movie. |
| 0:10.8 | Let us begin. |
| 0:12.5 | Beep, beep. |
| 0:13.7 | Drive my... |
| 0:16.0 | Car. |
| 0:19.7 | Car, car, car, car. |
| 0:25.7 | Question off the top. Are you familiar with the song drive my car uh no but i'm familiar with the song drive it like you stole it yes okay we'll get to the drive my car thing in a bit |
| 0:31.5 | in the naming of this film but uh this is the first japanese film ever nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. |
| 0:40.8 | And initially, that, like, struck me as like, whoa, really? How? And then I remembered that |
| 0:48.9 | the first, like, non-North American movie to win, like just happened. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, it's famously like an all-American sort of celebration at the Academy Awards. |
| 1:00.8 | I, yeah, so yeah, only one foreign language film has ever won, which, as you said, was Parasite. |
| 1:07.8 | That explains, I guess, why this is such a long shot. At plus 3,300, it has the third to |
| 1:15.3 | worst betting odds. Does drive my car to win Best Picture. Only don't look up and Nightmare |
| 1:21.0 | Alley have worse odds. It's also nominated for Best Director, Ryasuke Hamaguchi, Best International Feature Film, |
| 1:28.6 | and Best Adapted Screenplay. |
| 1:32.1 | I'll tell you what, though. |
| 1:34.1 | It's probably my new favorite to win Best Picture. |
| 1:37.8 | I fucking loved this movie. |
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