Review of Locke

Locke (2013)
Nice acting, unlikely story
12 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I don't care that the entire movie is filmed inside a car. The only actor we actually see on screen, Tom Hardy, gives a great acting performance as a man (Ivan Locke) who is driving and talking on the phone all the time in a very difficult situation. The problem I have with this movie is the story. Imagine a construction manager who suddenly leaves his most important project, a huge building that is going to be built, in the most crucial day, and thus ruins his own life and his family. Why would he do that? Ivan Locke chooses to go because a woman he had sex with and he barely knows is going to deliver a baby that very night. When she asks him to attend, he feels compelled to go as he is the father of the child, supposedly. As a consequence of his behavior he is going to lose his job, as he even refuses to make up an excuse like being ill or something, and he is going to lose his wife too. But he doesn't seem to care a lot, he is only concerned with the woman who is giving birth and with the building project he abandoned (he has just been fired, but he still feels responsible for the project). How likely is all that?
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