So I watched a film called Brick earlier this week and is was pure liquid awesome, so i am going to rant about it a bit and then collapse in to a catatonic state of pure bliss.
Brick is a dark and fairly bleak look at the underside of modern secondary education through the stunningly appropriate lens of film Noir.
The narrative follows Brendan, high school loner come Private Eye, as he tries to track down his ex-girl friend within the empty parts of his school and the surrounding town after he receives a panicked phone call from her.
She tells him that she has gotten into trouble leaving him only a small number of clues as to her problems, including the words 'the Pin', Tug and 'Bad brick', and lastly a cigarette butt, with a small blue arrow printed on it.
With the help of his leg-man the brain and a lot of asking around he trails his ex, Emily, through a number of small time dealers and addicts in the school, including Kara, a b*@#%y and manipulative drama club member, Laura beautiful but dangerously well connected member of the schools upper crust and a strung out junky called Dode. His search meets with success in short order, as he finds his lost love and tries to get her to let him help, only to be pushed away.
Brendan is about to drop the 'case' when Emily turns up dead and the film really gets going. Following his earlier leads, Brendan is pulled into a story of teenage love, bad heroin and the ignorance of adults.
The film mixes stunning cinematography with the utterly bleak and sterile environs of a nameless American school. The Language is evocative and slightly difficult to follow if you do not have a smattering of knowledge of the language of film Noir and modern drug culture, but is darkly witty and minimal.
All in all, brick is one of the best films I have seen in years.
Totally agree with the zombieneighbors! Gordon Levitt? is something to watch. I didnt get into "3rd Rock" too much, but the movies hes done since are really cool. He did another one recently called "The Lookout" I would also recommend!
Brick is, and has been since I was introduced to it about three years ago, one of my favorite films.
Yeah I saw this film a few years back. Great noir.
Glad to hear that I am not alone I having liked this.