Ryan Gosling is Looking For a Fight in the Red Band Trailer For ‘Only God Forgives’

4 April 2013 6:05 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »

As a married man, I’m comfortable enough in my sexuality to say that Ryan Gosling is a handsome man.  But it isn’t the Drive star’s good looks that makes this trailer for Only God Forgives so gorgeous and hypnotic.  That honor can be bestowed to cinematographer Larry Smith.  A frequent collaborator with Stanley Kubrick, Smith has given the same sense of balance and structure that the former director loved so much and has placed it in the violent underground world of Thai boxing that director Nicolas Winding Refn has created.  I couldn’t help but recall the dazzling imagery from some of Wong Kar-wai’s films like Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love when watching this trailer.  Of course, since this is the director of such violent opuses as Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Only God Forgives looks like if Wong Kar-wai decided to direct an ultra-violent exploitation film. »

- Michael Haffner

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