Brick 4K 2005 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

Brendan Fry is a young Californian, not a fool at all and far from a romantic, nevertheless, he does not succeed in life. His most natural state is to be an outsider. His equilibrium is disturbed when one day his ex-girlfriend Emily suddenly appears and then mysteriously disappears.

Convinced that his feelings for Emily are still valid, Brendan, with the help of his only friend Brian, begins a search for the girl, which turns into a dangerous investigation.

Review 4K Movie

The beginning of the movie shook me up a bit - on the screen somewhere on the outskirts of the city near the corpse of a blonde beauty, the main character Brandon is squatting on the screen with his sleeves rolled up, wearing glasses and scuffed brown shoes on his feet. The delicacy of the situation gives the moment that in a minute the frame will change, and we will see the not so distant past, in which Brandon is in a phone booth and calms the still alive Emily. From the conversation he manages to understand that Emily is worried about something, her situation is cracked and out of control, she needs protection, and what's more, she's been set up: Pin is furious about the brick, Frisco screwed up, and Tug... The unbearable lightness of existence is broken.

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Let's start with what is a Brick? Brick is those large briquettes of drugs pressed into the shape of a brick or a Soviet 48 kopeck plombir. Next. There are some movies in the world that the more complicated they are, the more interesting they are. In “Brick” everything will be very complicated. Next. The first half of the movie is a series of all sorts of riddles, based solely on incomprehensible conversations. I don't know English that well, but there are a lot of deceptive slang words: fits, tug, poor frisco, pin. A lot of people remembered 'Twin Peaks'.

Clearly, this aspect is a turning point and is hidden by the cobwebs of the author's intent. The Russian translation, of course, is made with the omission of this 'chip'. However, most importantly, all events are not strung on Brandon. On the contrary, they develop around him. Everyone says something, but not telling, and the protagonist understands little of what is happening, but does not back down. Thus, Brandon in search of the murderer of his girlfriend sinks to the bottom of a quiet town covered with fog. Next, I offer a few options for analysis.

Option one is neo-noir. The general design of this fashionable movie trend is to imitate the pictures of the 1920s-1950s. The protagonist is a typical small-time sleuth who begins to rake up the past and turn his pockets inside out; he is surrounded by many iconic characters - elderly, seasoned private detectives, blues brothers, mafia bosses and femme fatales. He always wears a hat, smokes on camera like a steam engine, and his thoughts are accompanied by a voiceover in a husky voice. All this falsification of reality swirls and swarms, and at the end is blown apart by either a world conspiracy or a cunning plan to “get away with it”.

I'll agree that director Johnson has recreated a noir to the core, but at the same time I'm willing to line up with reviewers to strongly object to claims that Johnson was only trying to create a certain atmosphere with casually cynical murders to reveal a philosophical satire about the younger generation of the United States.

The whole plot trap of “Brick” is that the typical noir characters in the picture is not atypical. For example, sad crippled villain (on the face - a real dodik) in a black cloak with a cane - the stronghold of all the villain noir. Strange, isn't it? Looking ahead, I'll say that the king of the local drug mafia prefers to cut bricks into small doses without leaving the house, right under mom's nose. The friendly mom always treats her guests to apple juice and milk with cornflakes. Many have wondered what the heck kind of noir this is...which is how false came to be....

The second version of the promised analysis. Let's call it - “a cross-section of Pepsi's younger generation.” The beginning of a new wave, a very interesting time - the old is not quite forgotten yet, and the new is already kicking its ass hard. Well, you know - rampant fraternities for the chosen few, student unrest, division into losers and school elite. Slushy parties, coke and mile-long lines to the local Taylor Darden of identically dressed pledges. It slips in places, but it's a long way from the toothy satire of 'Chumscrubber', admittedly.

The third option is its own. In my opinion, it is wrong to take things literally. What we have before us is a new noir story model, filled with allegories and hyperbole, with a more accessible 'no cops and stuff' interface. One revolver as checkmate, black coats and white T-shirts as chess pieces, a girly theater, the main character's glasses and a soccer field as a chessboard, under a dome of azure sky, which is shown for the whole movie, probably, 3 or 4 times. That's where it all started, that's where it all ended.