Inherent
Vice
(2014)
Johnny's
comments:
Inherent
Vice is about 'Doc'
(Joaquin Phoenix), a
self-styled private
investigator in 1970 who
gets a visit from his ex
ol' lady Shasta Fay
Hepworth (Katherine
Waterston) who wants him
to find stop her current
beau, real estate
developer Mickey Wolfmann
(Eric Roberts), from being
'kidnapped' by his wife
and her lover and taken to
a sanitarium. The next
day, Doc gets a visit from
former crim Kahlil Tariq
(Michael K. Williams) who
asks him to find an old
cellmate who is a
bodyguard for Mickey and
leads him to a 'massage
parlour' in the middle of
nowhere where he
investigates, only to be
knocked out. He wakes up
and finds the body of the
bodyguard next to him and
numerous cops surrounding
him. He is arrested and
interrogated by a
notorious cop 'Bigfoot'
(Josh Brolin), who tells
him that Mickey and Shasta
Fay are missing and that
he may be involved, but
with no real evidence on
anything to go further and
the help from his lawyer
friend Sauncho Smilax
(Benicio Del Toro), Doc is
released. He is then hired
by Hope (Jena Malone) to
find her saxophonist
husband (Owen Wilson) who
she thinks is dead, but
not really. Doc now has to
find three people and it
will involve dealing with
a drug syndicate run by
dentists called the Golden
Fang or a boat that
mysteriously arrived from
the Bermuda Triangle and
other weird and wild
characters. Bizarre crime
comedy based on the book
by Thomas Pynchon that I
liked quite a lot. It
doesn't really make much
sense, nor is it supposed
too, but somehow, Doc
manages to solve
everything, I guess. It is
a slow, fun ride through
Los Angeles in the 70s and
if you have the patience
and don't mind that it
isn't a straight ride to
the destination, you'll
probably like the movie
too. But, Inherent Vice is
not for everyone, that's
for sure...
Some new
collages of Katherine
Waterston
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