Locke
Dir: Steven Knight
2014
****
On paper, Locke sounds like the most
boring idea for a thriller/drama I've ever heard of. Lars von Trier proved that
you don't need a location, loads of props etc when he made the brilliant
Dogville, all you need is a great script and good performances. Steven Knight
strips it back even further in some respects and just has the one location; the
front seat of a car on a motorway. That's it. To be fair though, Haris Zambarloukos's career best cinematography on Locke makes it
much more than that and surprisingly it is a visual treat. The story is also so
simple, it's not a crime drama and nothing particularly out of the
ordinary happens and yet it is one of the most intense films I've ever
seen. I mention von Trier, as to me this seems to be the ultimate Dogma film.
It's as natural and real as a scripted film could ever hope to be and a huge,
if not a subtle achievement.
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