The Quiet Visuals of Drive My Car
![Yusuke's apartment](https://res.cloudinary.com/dd8pkf7yu/image/upload/drive_my_car_01.webp)
![Yusuke's living room](https://res.cloudinary.com/dd8pkf7yu/image/upload/drive_my_car_02.webp)
Tyler Watamanuk describes the soft design and photography details that helped make Drive My Car one of my favorite movies from 2021.
the loudest visual in Drive My Car is a glossy shade of cherry red. It comes courtesy of a Saab 900 Turbo, the adored possession of protagonist Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima). Yūsuke never strays from the film’s low visual tone.
![Yusuke's cherry red Saab](https://res.cloudinary.com/dd8pkf7yu/image/upload/drive_my_car_04.webp)
The apartment is full of warm little objects that make the space feel real, like this clothes brush dangling on a coat rack.
![Clothes brush on a coat rack](https://res.cloudinary.com/dd8pkf7yu/image/upload/drive_my_car_03.webp)
See also: The Unusual Cool of Saabs.
Before I owned my Saab, I believed that all cars were either functional or luxurious. There was the Toyota Camry or the Porsche, the minivan or the sports car. But a Saab, modest and Scandinavian, exists on a different axis. My car is distinctly impractical and worth very little. It is coveted for intangible reasons — chiefly its eccentricity.