only wednesday and holy shit, a post. the shite weathers not really doing its part to promote the whole going out and shit, but whatever. after modelling my first complex (and swishy) chair today at work, i made my way down to the angelika to catch brick with jess and company. that movie is seriously odd. it was definitely interesting, but skirts a fine line between satire and seriousness. all the high schoolers talk like their philosophy majors, all the while coloring everything they say with their weird slang (they gave use booklets before the movie to help translate english-to-english). still equal parts funny (godfather meets suburbia) and dead serious. im not sure my high school was anything remotely as hazardous as theirs.
for personal reference only: drinks at von afterwards, then some righteous tacos at las equinas at the corner of lafayette and centre. good stuff yo.
yeah, i just saw brick too… at angelika.
i enjoyed it. seeing modern day high school
kids spurt out slang from 1930’s noir films /
pulp fiction novels is a pretty funny style
choice. sort of like romeo + juliet with leio
a few years ago.
i also thought it was really funny how tough
the main character was, cause i could never
shake the fact that he’s the nerdy weakling
from 3rd rock. hahah.
plenty of people in my theatre actually
walked out on the film… seemed like they
thought the writing was too pretentious.
the director could have played it more
tongue and cheek, or toned down the noir
dialogue, to make the film easier to
digest. but he decided to go balls out
with it. i can respect that.
the writer / director is getting a lot of
press these days for being a bold, fresh
new voice in cinema. while its certainly
an entertaining film, i don’t find it all
that innovative stylistically, it seems
to me like this project was sort of a
mish mosh of styles we already know and
love (ala david lynch, tarintino,
Baz Luhrmann, etc).
i’d give brick a 7.5 / 10
haha. thanks for your review, mr. gomez, dp extraordinaire. i saw the movie you worked on, btw. nice dp work.