Inherent Vice

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1. ›Inherent Vice (2014) - The Detective Story@lionsuit3007d

   

   My favorite films are often of the detective sort.

   Anything Raymond Chandler based usually does it, be it older Bogart stuff or newer films like Altman's The Long Goodbye and heavily influenced films like Shane Black's Kiss Kiss or The Nice Guys. The great detective story can come from many places. The Coen Brothers' Lebowski is one of the best. Add Inherent Vice to that. Add Brick and Blade Runner, though there we start to blur the line into Noir, which is almost inevitable, but I'm talking more so about the Detective Story, as described by Chandler himself at one point in "The Simple Art of Murder."

   

   When you take a great detective story like Chandler's The Long Goodbye or Pynchon's Inherent Vice and pair it with a phenomenal director, you can get something next level.

   Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the best, and this is my favorite of his films. That says a lot, when you take a look at Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, I could just list them all.

   

   The design, the music, the color, the rhythm and composition, the story and characters, all mirror or compliment each other in tone. PTA mixes them perfectly here. Funny, heartfelt, dark, heavy, sweet, odd, surreal. Just sit back and let the film play.

   

   Be well.

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2. ›Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice" and the movie adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson@godflesh3070d

   

   In the early 70's, America went on for more than an era. The idealism of the generation, the belief in change, and the hope for a child's well-established justice go away. In their place a wound soaked in fear of conspiracy; fear of the state; fear of the police, fear of streets flooded with drugs introduced by the services of that same state. The Time of Cults and Sects, where Charles Manson is a television star. There are disappointments in the uncertainty, the odds are drawn. Thomas Pynchon wrote "Inherent Vice" 30 years later, but the action in the novel developed in 1970. Paul Thomas Anderson wonders why this is going backward before embarking on the adaptation. Is it a nostalgia for youth years or is it more? Maybe Pynchon has discovered the roots of the weeds that have grown in the garden of the most paraded democracy in the world. What is "Inherent Vice"? What is the book about, what is the film about? The term "inherent vice" is used for a birth defect of a physical object. Such uncertainty increases the risks in the case of goods transported overseas. The defect is not visible and this prevents the possibility of taking action. The film is not about right and trade, so the term refers to something different. To people. For a whole generation.

   the remission is seemingly simple. Larry "Doc" Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), a private detective and marijuana smoker, is known by his former girlfriend, Shasta Faye (Catherine Waterson), who begs him for a favor. Her lover (Eric Roberts), a real estate millionaire, is potentially in danger of becoming a victim of fraud, framed by his wife and her lover. Doc dives into a whirlwind of tangled stories and increasingly crazy characters. His current capricious friend (Reese Witherspoon); his attentive lawyer (Benicio del Toro); Macho-detective Christian Bigfoot (Josh Brolin); an undercover agent who allegedly died (Owen Wilson) and his crazy wife (Jenna Malone). The madness of the tangled story is virtually unthinkable. Those who are accustomed to watching the movie to find out who the killer is, who stole the money, what would happen then would give up in the first 20 minutes. A character may appear in one scene and, over two scenario pages, may give information that may be further misinterpreted or misrepresented. The confusion of these discrepancies is the watershed. Either you take it as an integral part of the movie, a purposeful effect, or you are bothering yourself indefatigably. Someone had written that the film is about stuffy characters, the film itself seems to be for high pepole. "The Big Lebowski" and "Boogie Nights" are huddled in the joint. Film noir Investigation with wordplay and absurd characters that pull the rug to themselves or they are overpowered and begin to hang. Because there is no truth in "Inherent Vice" that is worth fighting for. The inherent vices of all involved ultimately emanate them from within, and survival is found in accepting this vice as an integral part of the beautiful entity.

   

   The music of Johnny Greenwood (the guitarist of "Radiohead" once again works with Paul Thomas Anderson) is hypnotic and gives fantastic shades to the transcendental detective. In addition, we also get great 70's as "CAN" Vitamin. Visually the movie is like a well-baked pizza. Robert Elswitt's camera once again captures the pulse of LA. After two years ago, taking us along the ladder of ambition with Vultures, the legendary operator reveals a much more mixed world. That's why the cameras are handheld - allowing for improvisations and spontaneous solutions. Elswitt himself grew up in Los Angeles over the decade, which is another plus for the authentic spirit of the film. In his words: "It was a wild, innocent, crazy, sexy, drug-prone place. I think Paul wanted to recreate this. "" Inherent Vice "is a surprising change for Paul Thomas Anderson. After "There will be blood" and "The Master" - modern classics, exhausting for assembly, a film appears unpretentious. Anderson has left impressive prolonged shots at the expense of close ups of people who stand against each other and talk. The director, just as an artist who, after learning the toughest techniques, returns to the main where the real challenge lies. As one of the best contemporary drummers said: "Simplicity is not stupidity." In some strange way this may be Anderson's best film. Surely his most underestimated. "Inherent Vice" is subtle as smoke from the joint. What is this movie about? For the 70's, for the war on drugs, for police brutality, for a lost generation, for love, for Pynchon himself? You decide.

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