Inherent Vice

PARANOIA ALERT Probably the most beautifully funny, sad, bat shit insane movie ever made. An entire runtime spent lost in the haze, grasping for the people, culture, systems, ideas and America that once was, uncovering the chemical dread of what’s taken their place. Literally no one does it like PTA. Confounded, hypnotized, delighted and thoroughly amazed, in equal measure, each time. Going to spend the next few weeks replaying Jonny Greenwood’s perfect (as always) soundtrack, or cracking up to myself thinking about some of Joaquin Phoenix’s moments of physical comedy or one of Josh Brolin’s line deliveries, or just feel the weight of what PTA, through Pynchon’s dense spiderweb of a story, is trying to say about how and exactly when the rot of money and power that we all recognize came to be. Honestly rises in my mind the more I think about it, despite the inherent frustration built into the viewing experience, can’t help but give this a perfect five star rating.