Review of Inherent Vice (2014) by Anthony I — 11 Jan 2015
Those who don't get it, will never get. Those who do get it, will have a ball. Inherent Vice is the most psychedelic film since Robert Downey Sr.'s "Putney Swope". It doesn't make sense.
... It's really not supposed to make sense. It's delightfully confusing and eclectically bewildered in the fumes of it's own bong water. This isn't the same P.T.A. you knew from "Boogie Nights" and "There Will Be Blood".
Here, he slams down on our heads a Thomas Pynchon book, and laughs at us for not getting it. It's a delicious assault on filmmaking. It's also a genius, loving tribute to the end of the Hippie revolution of America in the early 1970's.
It may never win an Oscar, but it ought to be tried for the Palme D'or at Cannes. Uncompromisingly, I loved it.
This review of Inherent Vice (2014) was written by Anthony I on 11 Jan 2015.
Inherent Vice has generally received positive reviews.
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