Movie Review: Inherent Vice

INHERENT VICE is one trippy, flippy, hippie movie carried by the brilliant Joaquin Phoenix and beautifully brought to life by Paul Thomas Anderson, my favourite living American filmmaker. Best described as a drug fuelled detective story, this film is a cinematic time machine that transports you right back to 1970, when the era of 'free love' was fading into oblivion and the streets were shrouded in a psychedelic haze of marijuana smoke and post-Manson paranoia. I found myself being utterly seduced by its stoned surrealism and bewildered by its behemoth of a plot that seemingly meanders aimlessly from scene to scene, much like our pot-headed protagonist himself. Eventually, you just have to give in to the experience and consider the journey itself more than the destination. All in all, This "groovy product" is what you may call "an acquired taste," but if it sounds like your kind of trip, I guarantee it will get you high on movies again...

Movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfs22E7JmI

- Shivraj Nanra