Heat

Filmed today finally, hopefully that video comes out soon, but I had to watch it again to celebrate a job well done. I also finished Heat 2 last week and wanted to jot some thoughts down, since I didn't really type much last time I watched this. Reading Heat 2 was some of the best time I've had reading fiction in recent years. For a book that's nearly 500 pages, I was able to rip through it un about a week's time. Mann and Gardiner establish the world and tone of the original film perfectly and effortlessly, while also bringing such a new flavor and depth through their use of subjectivity and the non-linear build of it. This story, and the subsequent film that hopefully comes to fruition soon, feels like Mann's career has been building to this point. He and Gardiner weave an epic larger than anything else he's made that incorporates elements of his entire oeuvre in something so singular. It's like his Twin Peaks The Return, his The Irishman. I loved every part, and how they elevated the parts before and after them with increasing detail, and loved the Easter eggs sprinkled throughout that could imply that all of Mann's crime films exist in a single world. I also had a blast imagining who could fill the roles of these iconic characters today and playing the movie out in my head, beat for beat as Mann describes in these pages. It took me a long time to finally get to it, but I'm really glad I did and recommend it to any fans of Heat.