Baby Driver Film Theory: Debora Is Secretly A VILLAIN

1. Remember, Edgar Wright Does NOTHING By Accident

But more than all this, the most convincing proof that Deb is working for Doc? Edgar Wright is one of the most meticulous genre filmmakers working today, and practically nothing in his movies is just a happy accident.

Some will argue that the fairly contrived nature of Deb and Baby's love-in is simply a by-product of Wright trying to tell a Bonnie and Clyde-esque love story in less than two hours, but Wright's reliance on tropes is so pervasive that it can't help but feel intentional and entirely self-aware.

Baby having just one more job before retiring and his boss not wanting to let him go so easily is a cliched set-up we've seen hundreds of times before, to say nothing of the extreme ease with which Deb drops what she's doing - admittedly, not much - and falls madly in love with Baby.

Remember that this is a film where Wright keenly toys with a typical action thriller structure and formula. Griff (Jon Bernthal) disappears out of the movie after telling his team, "If you don't see me again, it's because I'm dead", and though the audience firmly expects him to re-appear later, he never does. He's nothing more than an A-list red herring, and it works terrifically.

Wright's generally detail-orientated approach is in fact evident everywhere, namely by way of Wright's brilliant signature foreshadowing.

For example, a bank teller quotes Dolly Parton lyrics to Baby - "There can’t be a rainbow without a little rain" and, as it turns out, it rains when the heist goes wrong, and there's a rainbow visible when Baby leaves prison at the end of the film.

There are literally dozens of references like this sprinkled throughout Baby Driver, which suggest that Wright has put an indefatigable amount of effort into creating this world and these characters.

As a result, is it easier to believe he just got lazy with the genre tropes, or he's hiding an epic plot twist in plain sight?