The movie

[Mark Kohut]

I liked it. Believeable well-crafted translation of the book. I liked
the close-ups, lots of them, they were in our face in a watch closely
kind of way --and the shots of bodies with no heads...I thought the
visual puns kept the from the book. Voiceover did not bother me, since
it enabled us to get key plot points and more of P's words...the
inherent vice explanation. for example...less moral ambiguity when Doc
kills Puck and Adrian Prussian...i did miss the cars up the mountain
road ending since that struck me so, since that has changed
everywhere.
it is still, as is Inherent Vice, more thematically minor than say,
Anderson's last two.

In a recent novel, Coetzee has the character discussing later Leo
Tolstoy, when the considered opinion is his work got weaker as he lost
the breadth of real life ambiguity in exhange for stronger polemical
skills and the character says that to Tolstoy it must have seemed that
he was being clearer and simpler and his beliefs more evident.

TRP ain't more polemical, imho, but IV is a simpler clearer embodiment
of a lot of P's vision and the movie gets that OK.


The actress who
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