Dolce Vita best viewed through a marijuana smog. A kind of ’70s bookend to the San Fernando Valley porn shenanigans of Boogie Nights, and apparently aiming for no higher goal than to fulfill Doc’s definition of groovy, Anderson’s IV lays down a shag carpet of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, with L.A. For both men, and for their audiences, this is a vacation at the beach, albeit one on a stormy day, with the odd corpse washing ashore at high tide. O.K., everybody can relax, as Pynchon did in writing Inherent Vice - TIME’s Richard Lacayo called it “entertainment of a high order” - and as Anderson did in filming it. To see a movie this guy makes of that guy’s novel, you don’t buy a ticket so much as you cram for a final. Anderson’s films are every bit as ambitious, convening dozens of performers and plot strands in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and The Master and thundering a jeremiad against capitalism in the sparsely populated but more forbidding There Will Be Blood. It’s not surprising that no film until now has been made of a Pynchon novel, or that Anderson would be the first to try. One thinks of the sprawl of characters, the collision of authorial tones, the hailstorm of literary references in such dense doorstops as Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Pynchon meets Anderson: that sounds intimidating. We can’t say for sure, but Pynchon may also make a cameo appearance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice movie, which had its world premiere Saturday at the New York Film Festival and will open in real theaters Dec. At that point it gets sort of peculiar.” The voice we hear in a 2009 video promo for the novel Inherent Vice is that of its author, Thomas Pynchon, whom we are obliged to call reclusive, though he sort of showed up as himself on two episodes of The Simpsons. “Or I guess it was groovy, till one night my ex–old lady shows up with a story about her boyfriend, or actually older guy friend, and his wife and her boyfriend. Inherent Vice is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Sasha Pieterse, Jena Malone.“It’s groovy,” says private detective Larry “Doc” Sportello of his stoner life in an L.A. Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. It's the tail end of the psychedelic `60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," that's being way too overused - except this one usually leads to trouble. When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin.well, easy for her to say. "Inherent Vice," is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. This movie is based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon. Pervasive, detailed portrayals of illegal drug use involving marijuana, cocaine and/or inhalants. Infrequent use of scatological slang and crude sexual references. Frequent use of the sexual expletive, sometimes in a sexual context. Implied sexual activity, with some detail. Full frontal nudity (depicting breasts, buttocks and/or pubic region) in a sexual situation. Full frontal nudity (depicting breasts, buttocks and/or pubic region) in a non-sexual context. Depiction of beating and shooting, with some blood and little detail. This additional information about the movie's content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards: Violence: Why is Inherent Vice rated R? Inherent Vice is rated R by the MPAA for drug use throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violence The information below is a summary based on data gathered from government and industry sponsored film classification agencies in various global regions. Please Note: We have not viewed this movie.
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