Computer Animation Arts

I'm coming a little late to the Ryan Gosling fan club.  I'm still yet to watch Drive (2011) -  but I did watch Derek Cianfrance's  The Place Beyond The Pines  (2012 ) recently, which I enjoyed for what was quaint and reactionary about its macho romanticism and reverence for the motorcycle as the signifier of  uncomplicated masculinity and Thanatos made literal.  It comes as little surprise to me that Gosling is the straight man's crush du jour .  He is Brad Pitt's Tyler Durden to Edward Norton's average Joe.  Ryan Gosling as the motorcyclist bank-robber in The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) Ryan Gosling as Julian in Only God Forgives (2013) In all truthfulness, it wasn't Gosling's blank-faced, shell-shocked machismo that had me so transfixed in Nicolas Winding Refn's  Only God Forgives - no, it was Kristen Scott Thomas's terrifying Crystal, the Gosling character's castrating, terrible mother, the monstrou...