oThe great creative fanatic situation blooms again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. After adapting Pynchon's inherent vices to screens in 2015, Anderson has now freely controlled his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller powered by Pulpy Comicbook Energy and transformed political indignation and kept the pedal at all times.
It's an improvisation of the now-identified Anderson-Pynchonian conception of countercultural and counterrevolutionary, absorbing the paranoid style of American politics into a huge ironic resistance, Jonny Green Wood's pain, jangling, jangling, jangling, neuromega score. It's partly a freaky-Freudian diagnosis of father-daughter dysfunction – juxtaposed with the separation of migrant children and parents at the US-Mexico border – and a very serious, relevant response to the US's secret ruling class and its insidiously normalised Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) roundups: the toxic new Vichyite Trump enthusiasm.
Pynchon imagines the subversiveness of the 60s with a competitive sequel in the 80s. Anderson brings the time gap between these eras to today, although there is obviously no cultural difference between Obama and the apocalypse of contemporary Trump. No specific references such as MAGA and BLM are mentioned.
Leonardo DiCaprio is Bob, an unsatisfied revolutionary who will become even more dissatisfied in the future, and when he will run on the streets in a dress, he has nowhere to charge his phone. Bob is part of an armed militant cell that attacks immigrants holding prisons on the Mexican border. Bob (moderate)’s job is to use fireworks as a transferring slash strategy rather than his comrades such as Badass Deandra (Regina Hall) and Cerebral Howard (played by composer and Yale scholar Paul Grimstad).
Bob is passionately dedicated to his partner and his charismatic comrades, and interestingly Teyana Taylor. Bob is not the only one. When the team attacks the military compound, Fidia captures and humiliates the aggressive reactionary Colonel Steven Lockjaw played by Sean Penn – various lizardly Head-jerking, jaw-punching Geezer Houndisisms played by Sean Penn, who apparently sparks sexual excitement from the entire business, and his creepy, creepy, comic dissatisfaction drive. Through cold calculations of the birth leader, Perfidia sees how she uses Lockjaw's obsessive gameplay to control and divert the military opposition. Has she gone too far? In fact, does the idea of taking things too far have any sense in this case? During her ninth month of pregnancy, Perfidia fired an assault rifle in shock, one of the most amazing images in the movie.
Bob was poor and raised a daughter he thought was his, as a single father. Willa (Chase Infiniti), 16, is as smart and focused as her mom, her teacher (Benicio del Toro) directs martial arts, and Bob feels even more confused about drugs and alcohol all day long, watching Pontecorvo's Algiers of Algiers on TV fights, longing to remember her friends' preferred pronoun. But the power of darkness surrounded them again, and when his old revolutionary friend reconnected with him, Bob realized his brain was too fried to remember the most important code words on the phone. As for Willa, she is now stuck with her mother and the painful questions about Bob and Lockejo, just like the heroine of her mother! Movie.
Fight after fight is immediately serious and meaningless, exciting and confusing, a tone fusion that makes a crazy hissing sound on the Vistavision screen – yes, yes, yes, but addictive. The title itself hints at an endless war of culture, a crazy extreme action movie that includes a good hosted car chase, and a final, fantastic hypnotic inheritance of three cars through the rolling hills. Is the central parent-child crisis triangle an image of ownership disputes surrounding the American melting point dream?
perhaps. These ideas are very out of place in the United States now, which only makes the film more interesting: it's about dissent and dissatisfaction, and the unfit loneliness heroism.
Fight after fight on September 25 in Australia and September 26 in the UK and us