Without cheap surprises and deliberately emphasized suspense, PTA restores the Southern California style of the late 1960s with a casual rhythm.
The result is that people who like this style continue to think about the picture of the film and think about the extension after watching the film.
People who do not adapt to this style will directly give low scores, and the evaluation will inevitably be polarized. The film hides inner tension and infection in a lazy narrative.
So I can really realize that this is an amazing film, not during the viewing process, not even after the viewing, but when I look back on it after many days.
All this has to be attributed to the perfection of Pynchon's original work and the masterful screenwriting and directing skills of PTA. -------The following contains spoilers-----
The film is guided by the unprofessional private detective Doc, and draws 5 lines:
One: Shasta and Doc;
Two: Bigfoot, a police detective who loves banana ice cream, is bullied by his wife, and plays TV dramas as an amateur;
Three: Coy and his wife;
Four: the rich;
Five: Golden Fang;
A large number of characters, covering almost all sentient beings.
In terms of rhythm, the film has been advancing unhurriedly, and the complex long-term head that PTA is good at is not used on the camera, and almost no close-up is used to control the audience's attention. Everything is casual.
PTA's biggest adaptation of the original is to add the scene where Doc watched Bigfoot swallow marijuana and cry, and the climax was at the end, which had to be reminiscent of a series of films by Michelangelo Antonioni. Just in this casual mind from beginning to end, all the sadness and loss are not hypocritical, but it is like a taste that slowly dissolves and is difficult to disperse.
The part of buying Drug through the Ouija board is really beautiful and romantic, and it is romantic and sentimental with Neil Young's fresh "Journey Through the Past".
In the end, the '70s, and everything, was like the refrain of Shasta and Doc: "This don't mean we are back together", there's no going back. -------------------- In addition, it seems that some foreign media commented that this drama has the style of Raymond Chandler, I can't agree at all, Ray Monde Chandler's detectives are much more professional than Doc, and clearly have East Coast characteristics. This "Inherent Evil" is a perfect presentation of Pynchon's novel.
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