First half is blissfully brilliant. Fearless and confident filmmaking - avant even in its honorable classicism. Lazlo is a fully realized human, grappling with the stark pain of war, emigration, and America. The story picks up steam as a tangled web of Anglo domination is juxtaposed with his new found success in the shadow of his architectural prowess, on a lone hill in Pennsylvania. Yet - as the second half veers into pain porn territory, the plot is regrettably -…
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Inherent Vice 2014
oops I have outed myself as an insufferable literary prick, a psychedelic know it all and fringe apologist. Joaquin Phoenix is at his best when he can let his freak flag fly in this multi layered narrative. A seemingly singular storyline with a flurry of not-so-related- but-maybe-they-are vignettes, off-shoots, and layovers. New characters spring up like Doc’s perpetually erect boner (sorry) as this spiraling hallucinogenic 1970s parable of drugs, love, crime, and California comes full circle. If you’re not paying close attention, you may go down with Alice and come up short. You gotta be fully committed to the Pynchion plot to get the pay off.
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