Films/DVD Asylum

Brick

67.140.84.238

An excellent noir type mystery. An ex girlfriend asks for help. Two days later she is dead. Brendan Frey, a high school student, sets out to find out why and who.

Need to pay attention to the dialog and/or use subtitles, but it's worth the trouble.

Follow Ups:

Liked Brick? You'll love Bubble, a far superior film. nt - tinear 03:20:24 08/14/07 (1)
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- Sorry... - mkuller 12:05:32 08/14/07 (0)
  ...I finally rented Bubble and watched it this week and I have to disagree.
  
  Bubble was very strange, slow and underwhelming.
  
  When it was over my wife and I just looked at each other and said, "Whaaa? Is that all there is?"
  
  Maybe too much like real life in small town West Virginia. That's why I live in the SF Bay Area.
  
  Not nearly as interesting or as much plot as Brick.
  
  Not in the same league, IMO.
My daughter and I... - mkuller 11:24:52 08/13/07 (0)
...loved it and saw it a second time on DVD.

Very creative with lots of inside high school humor.

"He knows where I eat lunch."
I thought this the height of pretension . . . - mr grits 14:54:46 08/12/07 (5)
The dialog was just too damned hard to decipher. People don't speal like that in real life. I netflixed it because of the underground raves but found it to be a paycheck for child stars left behind.

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- RE: I thought this the height of pretension . . . - rico 09:28:12 08/13/07 (0)
  I agree with you. One of my friends raved about this and I was very disappointed.
- It helps if you understand what they are saying - edta 16:30:59 08/12/07 (3)
  The dialog is important. So you have to "work" a bit to "get it". So what? Did you ever read A Clockwork Orange? Some similarities regarding dialog. Perhaps even more than that, after all.
  
  There are a few weaknThe Good Shepherd.
  - I got no joy from reading CWO.... - mr grits 09:00:18 08/13/07 (1)
    Fortunately, Kubrick made it a frightening/entertaining movie. Plus, CWO was set in the future.
    
    The characters in Brick spoke in a vernacular peculiar only to themselves which was patterned on the clipped vernacular of ancient PI Noir. I guess in was "indie art" for that crowd.
    
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    - Frightening and entertaining but an improper ending - should have gone with Burgess' finale.(nt) - Revolver66 20:08:14 08/13/07 (0)
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  - Huh? Much better than The Good Shepherd. - edta 16:36:12 08/12/07 (0)
    Now that was a mediocre film IMO. Not sure how that last paragraph became mangled in the above post.

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