Ryan gosling seems like a rich man's Keanu Reeves... Emotive when he needs to be but mostly very sedate and serene looking. It fits this movie but I'm ambivalent about him as an actor.

Anyway, the movie looked gorgeous and really transported me. I think the sub-story was more interesting than the major one though... Particularly in the scene where fantasy merged with reality.

It made me think about how we sometimes super impose our fantasies on reality for ourselves but it was a trip seeing the fantasy make itself tangible.

I'm still processing where gosling's character was emotionally when he decided his course of action in the climax. Same with the primary villains emotion... Couldn't quite get a bead on that characters emotional motivation to do what was done... It seemed like more than following orders.

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