Are we really in Week 20 of 2010 already? Time flies when you're, erm... watching movies. Ahem. Anyway... Brick seems to be cropping up a lot round the blogosphere recently. Back in February, Univarn picked up on many of the key reasons why it's so successful with his review and just this week Vance over at The Audient gave it a second chance and produced this fantastic article. For my money, Brick is something close to genius. The stylisation extends further than just the dialogue, leading to a very memorable trip into neo-noir that benefits from repeated watching more than many movies I've seen. The red band trailer, which bizarrely replaces the film's awesomely bare, xylophonic score with brass-based music, is embedded below.
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Thanks for the shout-out, FI! It's a great sign of your open-mindedness that you referred your readers to my post, even though I am fairly critical of the film. (Though of course my post has a relatively happy ending.)
ReplyDeleteAlways happy to refer readers to quality bloggers - we try to do it in every post in fact - whether they agree or disagree with our own opinion; such is the nature of movie-watching!
ReplyDeleteI love this movie, okay? I can understand why other people--Vance, my mother, every other guy I've shown it to--but those things are what make me love it. And, yes, the trailer kicks ass.
ReplyDeleteIt's brilliant. I'll rewatch it and add a review to our index soon. Brothers Bloom hasn't come out in the UK yet but I'm really looking forward to seeing it and anything else Johnson does from now on.
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