“Baby Driver”–For Millennials
[Originally published for Blog Critics, July 3, 2017]
The highly praised feature film Baby Driver, starring newcomer Ansel Elgort as Baby, tells the story of a millenial car driver getting in and out of trouble while trying to capture the love of his life. Baby drives fast and furiously, shifting gears and tapping tunes he hears on this iPod (yes, an iPod) on his steering wheel while waitng for the criminal types he chauffeurs around to complete their heists–robbing banks and the post office.
Baby’s boss, Doc, (the incomparable Kevin Spacey in a role not deserving of his talent) is owed...