You totally want to marry that movie. You couldn't leave it if you tried. Even if it was an abusive husband, you'd still be like, "But it's not like that most of the time!"
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I think the premise of Brick was okay, and, like I said, the dialogue was way fun. I'm not surprised the transplant of the noir to high school worked so well. Where else do people live in daily melodramas of who's with who, who's shunning who, and who knows what about whom? It's like what I was saying about the updating of Othello (http://trinityvixen.livejournal.com/356758.html#cutid2)--successful updates cover the weaknesses of story, the turn-off potential for the audience by using setting as a silent character to fill in the rest. With Brick, a lot of the conventions of the noir were rendered a tad less ridiculous because opportunity to meet random folk who are as good as strangers and can change your life forever is a little more common in a large institution like a high school.
The plot, meh. The femme fatale, double-meh. The hero, suitably melancholic and tough.
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I think the premise of Brick was okay, and, like I said, the dialogue was way fun. I'm not surprised the transplant of the noir to high school worked so well. Where else do people live in daily melodramas of who's with who, who's shunning who, and who knows what about whom? It's like what I was saying about the updating of Othello (http://trinityvixen.livejournal.com/356758.html#cutid2)--successful updates cover the weaknesses of story, the turn-off potential for the audience by using setting as a silent character to fill in the rest. With Brick, a lot of the conventions of the noir were rendered a tad less ridiculous because opportunity to meet random folk who are as good as strangers and can change your life forever is a little more common in a large institution like a high school.
The plot, meh. The femme fatale, double-meh. The hero, suitably melancholic and tough.