Locke-2013

A movie in that focuses on the protagonist driving down the highway while answering calls on speaker, trying to juggle his private and professional life with several callers. That is the basic premise of Locke. And it even though it seems like a very limiting idea for a movie, for example, as it happens in Inside with Willem Dafoe (where the protagonist is sutck limited to an apartment), here the interactions between the driver and the callers are the the solution worked out as the means to take the action away from the limited space of the car in which Ivan Locke is driving (albeit not in a phisical sense).

    Tom Hardy plays said Ivan Locke, who is going through, probably, the worst night of his life, and is trying to keep his life from collapsing, while talking to his boss, co-workers and family. And here to the disembodied voices of the callers are the soul of the movie, making up for the absence of the proper conversation in presence one is used to.

Sometimes, when one is at a crucial point in life, several events come crashing down at the same time, and the first instinct is to try and preserve everything as it was before the "storm" it. But a “storm” never leaves everything like it was before, and thar is what Ivan realises during a particular conversation with his wife: he is trying to have it all, but now that the “storm has it”, it’s impossible for that to be. Several life changing moments like this show up throughout the movie as the conversations take place and it keeps the pacing on edge of a knife. Locke is at its’ core, a movie about trying to survive a storm, and about what one hopes for the future to be after the storm.