Hbo inherent vice8/12/2023 ![]() Anderson’s past films have always breathed precision: whether he indulged in the stylistic bravado of Punch Drunk Love and Boogie Nights, or stewed with the quieter brilliance of The Master and There Will Be Blood, each film, and each scene, carried an overarching purpose, even if they may have been initially puzzling. While its gags are ingenious and plentiful, heady themes rise from the madness: some good for laughs-the culture war is at the forefront of the story, and Anderson isn’t beneath milking a chocolate-covered banana’s phallic qualities as a hippie-hating authority figure devours it-and some, sometimes the very same themes, conjure up a distinct melancholy in the same breath, as in how the ideal of free love gives way to disturbing sexual dynamics.Īnderson delves into the stoned haze of the era, and of course, when drugs are involved, there are side effects. Paul Thomas Anderson’s drug-fueled detective odyssey depicts the end of the 1960s in a way that’s both mournful and madcap coherency isn’t a priority-or even intended-in this tale of an era of endless possibilities coming to a close.Īnderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel is both unnervingly surreal and pliably, affably keen to take every detour possible on the road from A to B. ![]() Sometimes it’s like cotton candy, at others like ominous smoke. The fog that envelops Inherent Vice might bring to mind the old expression “thick as pea soup.” But that’s not quite right.
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