Damage Control
“The moment Idealism gets out of line with conduct, it becomes just another vice.” The face of Ryan Gosling, suddenly ubiquitous on our movie screens, is ideal for that of an actor: almost mask-like and concealing (if seemingly bland), but capable of startling changes in the characters played by this long-time actor. He has, in the last few years, played a neo-Nazi, a conventional protagonist, a get-away criminal, a kindly narcissist and so on, and all of them well.


