Geoffrey O’Brien: Pynchon’s Blue Shadow

"The words in Anderson’s film are mostly Pynchon’s; the plot elements too, however freely they have been culled and transposed; the free-associative multiplicity and ricocheting mood changes are carried over with a miraculous lightness of touch. Yet Inherent Vice the movie is utterly its own thing, as thoroughly a piece of Anderson’s imaginative universe as of Pynchon’s. If Pynchon’s Doc Sportello could stare at a movie and feel puzzled by what he’s seeing, here it’s as if the movie stared back, infusing the materials of the novel with further ambiguities of emotion and association, pervading it with the actual California sunlight that feels like the movie’s binding force. People glide through it or are trapped or exposed by it. It offers promises of innocent happiness or flattens everything with an overlay of blinding impersonal brightness."

Quelle: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jan/03/pynchon-blue-shadow-inherent-vice/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR+Charlie+Hebdo+new+films+Obama+and+rights&utm_content=NYR+Charlie+Hebdo+new+films+Obama+and+rights+CID_2199a7465927ef2901730f39807bead6&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Pynchons%20Blue%20Shadow

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