Drive (2011)

Drive (2011) is a remarkable movie directed by Nicolas Winding Refn wherein

we can see use of non-diegetic music with its retrowave soundtrack. It gives
both a feeling of the past 80’s or 90’s to show Driver belongs in another
world and its somewhat futuristic sound to show he does not belong in this
world. Sequence in which the use of non-diegetic music is motivated by
diegetic sound coming from the filmic space is as follows :-

 In one particular scene the driver has just helped out a friend rob a pawn
shop, but it’s gone really wrong and the friend is killed. Hiding in a hotel
with a woman then he realises he got company of few gangsters coming for
him when there are shadows passing the window. In this whole scene it’s been
slowed down and the environmental sound aka diegetic sound seem to be
focused and it almost intensifies the non-diegetic sound which gives a feel of
thrill and suspense as if he is listening to the world from under water only
hearing the louder more threatening sounds, but without the sound of water.

Secondly, the song (“A Real Hero”) is featured twice in the film, first when
the Driver takes Irene and her son to the ravine and for a second time after
the Driver kills the last of the villains, driving into the distance. The song’s
lyrical content is straightforward, and signifies the one-dimensional image of
the Driver that is suggested by the lack of dialogue, objectifying composition,
and straightforward adoption of the chivalric romance narrative structure. He
is a “real human being and a real hero,” the song states, literally provides
an interpretation of the film as a fairy tale about a man who is a “real
human being by day and real hero by night.” Ultimately, rather than lending
subjective insight into the character, the soundtrack only objectifies the
Driver as a model of masculinity more intensely.