Licorice Pizza

I love and adore this masterpiece with everything in me. Is there anything this man can not truly do in the filmmaking industry.  Paul Thomas Anderson this was a very very lovely film from the first few minutes I was dropped into this world I could feel the atmosphere deeply that he was forming. He recreates the look and feel of La in 70’s so articulately with ease while being very pretty. It’s truly stunning to set your eyes upon this film, the fashion was so on point! Could I somehow get ahold of your playlist Mr Anderson, these tunes were just spectacular. He strays away from the traditional romance film, Paul gives us two young characters with a big age gap. Who so happen to run into each at one another’s school, so then the journey of finding themselves and each other in the middle of youthful “chaos” begins. Paul’s narrative structure mixed with Alana’s and Coopers performances perfectly captures the feeling of being young and directionless, like bouncing from one adventure to the next. Benny’s role portrayed that as well. I couldn’t get enough of Bradley Cooper in this, he really took this film to a completely different world when he stepped in. Don’t get me wrong this film already had me laughing a good bit, but he had me CRYINGG, then I was thinking to myself.. PTA always finds a way to add some tension in his films and then it happened, Jon Peters immediately flips Gary’s world upside down with his threats. What an ensemble of a cast in general! John C. Reilly cameo was not enough PTA, please bring him back. We miss him and need more!! Phenomenal writing.