Brick
This stunning, highly original, the film deserves its place alongside the classics of modern worship, such as the usual suspects, The Big Lebowski and Donnie Darko. You can basically be described as a black film in high school, but there is much more than that.
First, is the wonderful dialogue, reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. For example, a gun becomes a gat, a reef Stoner is a worm, duck soup, it’s an easy target, and a private detective becomes a Shamus.
Secondly, it has a unique atmosphere, which is mainly achieved through a number of contradictions: I thought at first that was established in the’80s, when one of the characters played with a Rubik s Cube, but they all have mobile phones. Children do not do not watch TV or play computer games, and a refreshing absence of lazy pop-culture references! In addition, the school always seemed strangely empty, the violence is very clever (real fights between children are not in that order), and there are only two brief and 
comical appearance of adults.
All this gives a brick (and presumably intentional) feels. The music and cinematography, which sometimes brings to mind Chinatown is great.
The performance of lead actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a revelation to those who have only seen in the sitcom Third Rock from the Sun (less surprising that seen in the great mysterious skin). Brick was launched in the United Kingdom in the week between the opening of Mission Impossible 3 and The Da Vinci Code, so your chances of being successful in the movies are mild.
Your local multiplex is presumably showing Mission Impossible 3 on four screens and do not bother with it. I hope that an audience on DVD.
I suspect that the two blockbusters will be forgotten in a few months, but that brick will look like a great movie in the coming years. I loved Brokeback Mountain, but only of bricks is my vote for best film of 2006 so far. I ll be surprised if I see a better movie this year.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:27 am
When driving, people who rush in front of you when there is no one behind you, only to slow down. Or turn left.