The movie

[Mark Kohut]

Brolin's scene with Phoenix where they go jaw-to-jaw is a
peak scene, imho, acting is pretty terrid, with Brolin leading.
Phoenix harder to do movie-length so, nods unto Jeff Bridges a couple
three times.
Reese and Mull pros.
I liked the music.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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