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Locke is a 2013 British drama film written and directed by Steven Knight (of Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises fame), starring Tom Hardy.Ivan Locke (Hardy) is a construction foreman who was scheduled to oversee the pouring of a concrete foundation for a new skyscraper in Birmingham. Instead, he has chosen to drive to London the night before to attend the birth of a child resulting from a one-night stand, although he has a wife and several sons awaiting his return. Along the drive, he makes a series of calls to manage the wreckage this decision has caused in his personal and professional lives.The film is notable for taking place entirely within the automobile of Locke as he travels from Birmingham to London in real time. Locke is the only character seen on screen for the entire film; Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels, Tom Holland and Bill Milner are additionally featured in voice-only roles as characters who have phone conversations with Locke. | |
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Babies Make Everything Better: At the end of the film, Locke is awestruck hearing his child's voice over the phone; it appears to be the universe confirming that everything he's gone through was Worth It to bring a new person into the world. | |
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Disappeared Dad: Ivan's father wasn't around for his childhood; his primary motivation to drop everything and attend the birth is to avoid the mistake his father made. | |
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Skewed Priorities: Even with his family crumbling and his job lost, Locke is determined to make sure his last project is successful. This is most dramatic when, shortly after telling his wife he cheated on her, he asks her to find a phone number he needs for the project. Her disbelief is entirely understandable. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Locke has lost his job and his wife intends to divorce him, but his sons still love him, his new child has been delivered safely, he's gotten that goddamn concrete pour supervised successfully, and he's still convinced that he's doing the right thing. | |
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Honor Before Reason: Everything would be so much simpler for Ivan if he simply didn't go to the birth of his baby from a one-night stand. But that wouldn't be the right thing to do. | |
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Guys are Slobs: Ivan's wife complains that he tracks concrete into the house, forcing her to chip away his "stone footprints." He also hasn't trimmed his beard in some time, which is possibly a Beard of Sorrow. | |
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Minimalism: The film is entirely composed of a single man taking phone calls in his car. | |
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Meaningful Name: The main character is named after the Enlightenment philosopher who empathized logic and reason. Locke tries to reason his way through his crisis at every step. It doesn't work. | |
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Being Good Sucks | |
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Being Good Sucks: Locke does the right thing by choosing to be there for his bastard child...but it's at the expense of his professional and personal life, which are both utterly wrecked by the end of the film. | |
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Married to the Job | |
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Married to the Job: In a moment of bitterness, Ivan's wife tells him that he was more in love with his buildings than her. The passionate way he talks about "my building" suggests that she has a point. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Donal gets drunk on cider over the course of the film, after explicitly being told that he shouldn't be drinking, which causes problems. He admits that he's been caught drunk driving before and will go to prison if caught again. | |
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging | |
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Donal gets Stefan and his crew to help with the job, Stefan shouts out that Ivan Locke is the best man in England. You can see how hard this hits Locke. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The film ends before the concrete pour is complete, so we never find out if all of Locke's effort to get it going successfully paid off. | |
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Working Through the Cold | |
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Working Through the Cold: Tom Hardy's real-life cold during filming caused an inadvertent example of this trope. | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Locke is supposed to be a Welsh character; however, Hardy's accent practically wanders around the entire British Isles (commencing in South Wales, to be fair). This was due to the fact that the man Hardy based Locke's Welsh accent on was not, in fact, Welsh. Hardy didn't learn this fact until shortly before the movie was released, and at that point it was too late to do anything to fix it. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: Ivan Locke is the only face we see in the whole film. We hear the voices of another 11 people, though mostly about five. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Locke's determination to get the foundation of the building laid properly very clearly mirrors his determination (and failure) to build a stable and lasting life and family. If it wasn't obvious enough, he gives Donal an impassioned speech about how a single error on a project this big will cause cracks that will grow until the whole building collapses. | |
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Real Time: Or pretty darn close. One of the first things that happens in the movie is Locke calling Bethan to say he'll be there in about an hour and a half — about the runtime of the movie. His continued updates to her also match up with how much time remains in the movie. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: Ivan maintains a calm and even-toned voice while on the phone, but he's shown weeping during some calls and suddenly exploding with rage when not on the phone. The only time Ivan loses his temper while on the phone is when Donal questions what mix they need on the concrete. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: The people Locke talks to repeatedly emphasize that he's the best construction manager they've ever worked with. Even under incredibly stressful circumstances, he knows every detail and has a solution for every problem. This makes it all the more dramatic when everything falls apart for him. | |
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Character Title: After protagonist Ivan Locke. Ivan even claims that he has repaired the family name Locke by making the principled decision to be there for his bastard child, unlike his wayward father. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: After the problems with the concrete pour have been sorted out, Ivan allows himself a few moments to believe that everything will work out with his personal life as well. Then his wife calls... | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Inverted. Ivan's dad was a complete deadbeat (it's implied that Ivan didn't meet him until he was 23), and Ivan is determined not to be like him. That's a major part of his motivation for risking his marriage and career to be there for his unplanned baby. | |
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Heroic Resolve | |
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Heroic Resolve: | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Only Tom Hardy can make the supervision of a concrete pour over the phone sound so suspenseful and badass. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Locke keeps talking about how the traffic is fine, but cops speed past him with sirens blaring several times. Other than some light road construction, Locke never encounters any traffic difficulties farther up the road. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Locke imagines that his deadbeat father is sitting in the backseat of his car and directs a few tirades into his rear-view mirror. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Ivan seems to find it important to be precise in the way he phrases things. The hospital staff inquire several times about Ivan's relation to Bethan, asking if he is her partner/next of kin/etc. Each time, he firmly corrects them that he is the child's father. Also, when Gareth talks about Ivan's ten years of service, Ivan repeatedly corrects him that it's nine years. This establishes his honesty and precision in all matters except the thing that sets the whole plot in motion. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Ivan vows to be there for the birth of his bastard child and complete the concrete job and still fix things with his wife even when the obstacles stack up against his favor. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Ivan cheated on his wife exactly once, with a middle-aged secretary who'd given up on having children. Naturally, she gets pregnant. | |
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