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Monday 27 April 2015

INHERENT VICE [2014]


Director Paul Thomas gets on high on the weird-o-meter with Inherent Vice, a comedic crime-drama based on Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name.
Narrated by musician Joanna Newsom, a stoner P.I. named Doc finds he's taken a case that completely spirals out of his control amidst a cast of characters even stranger than he is.  Planted deep into 1970's California, the film has a psychedelic noir-ish feel to it as if it were The Big Lebowski's evil twin with it's back-drop heavily influenced by the paranoia of the Manson Family murders.  There's not a whole lot of sense to be made out of this incredibly confusing psychedelic noir but it's unsettling humor, fantastic music, wildly bizarre performances and hypnotizing character interactions make it so damned engaging I didn't want it to end.

4 Pussy Menus out of 5

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