While Driver is confined in a criminal world he despises and feeds on at the same time, he attempts to break free by finding something good in Irene and her son. Benicio replies, "Of course, he's a shark," to which Driver responds, "So there aren't any good sharks?" Irene's son, Benicio, is watching cartoons in an earlier scene and Driver asks him if he thinks a character is a bad guy.
Refn occasionally adds a few touches to support these themes. We can then deduce that Driver's true nature is, in fact, good (for lack of a better word), but dragged down by his surroundings. Note how the scorpion he wears, which is emphasized repeatedly throughout the film, does not represent what he is, but rather what he carries on his back.
Driver, played by brilliantly by the memorable Ryan Gosling, is the frog like how the frog is eventually drowned because of the scorpion's nature, Driver is eventually "drowned" because of the criminals he helps. This is the underlying moral complex in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 unconventional action drama, Drive. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung, to which the scorpion replies, "I couldn't help it. The scorpion climbs onto the frog's back and the frog begins to swim, but midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to take the scorpion. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The fable of "The Scorpion and the Frog" goes like this: A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. Near the end of the film, Driver phones the antagonist, Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks), and says: "You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river." Reviewed by Wesley-Wang 10 /10 False Marketing
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