The movie

[Mark Kohut]

Third thoughts...perhaps it missed the emphasis on Manson, Altamont and the
end of the sixties in more ways than one....

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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