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[Keith Davis]

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> On Jan 10, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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