Brick was fabulous. It would have been so easy for the writer to make camp out of the genre, especially given the high-school setting; it would have been equally as easy to ham-hand the delivery and make yet another John Hughes film with some shadows tacked on for good measure.
Instead, Brick managed to completely draw me in and suspend all disbelief. I would never have thought that a teenager's short jacket could look like a trenchcoat, for instance. The dialogue clips like Nick and Nora, and the sunny California high school comes across like a foggy night in The City.
I seriously cannot recommend the movie enough to anyone who loves noir. It's not a re-invention (those have almost all failed completely), it's a re-imagining that stays true to absolutely everything you could possibly want.
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Date: 2006-07-01 04:43 am (UTC)From:Instead, Brick managed to completely draw me in and suspend all disbelief. I would never have thought that a teenager's short jacket could look like a trenchcoat, for instance. The dialogue clips like Nick and Nora, and the sunny California high school comes across like a foggy night in The City.
I seriously cannot recommend the movie enough to anyone who loves noir. It's not a re-invention (those have almost all failed completely), it's a re-imagining that stays true to absolutely everything you could possibly want.