Reviews

It seems like a film more suited to be experienced in a non-literal fashion than one in which you're rewarded by keeping track of how the drug cartel is connected to the cult and how they both relate to the eccentric dentist.

Much like Joaquin Phoenix throughout the film, I think you would have to be as high as a kite to even write a synopsis for this film, let alone a review; as I imagine Paul Thomas Anderson must have been when he directed it.

Personally, I expect to give the film a few shots more, but normally even the most incomprehensible Anderson film tend to fascinate in such a sufficient way, that the desire to reunite with the universe quickly occurs.

It's not hard to pick the similarities to certain other films that work in a similar vein and work out how it'll pan out from there - the increasingly complicated mystery plot with many inter-connecting strands, the cavalcade of bizarre characters that populate the film's cartoonish setting, etc.

I read some of Thomas Pynchons books a long time ago (V and Gravitys Rainbow are all time favorites) but never got to Inherent Vice, so I didnt come into this movie with much in the way of preconceptions.

Inherent Vice is yet another win for director Paul Thomas Anderson, it's packed to the brim with wackiness.

Robert Elswit is the cinematographer and the camerawork is on display much less in this film than any other Paul Thomas Anderson film.