No slouch of a soundtrack to be sure, but within the sprawling world of Pynchon’s source text, music is such a central character that one needn’t have waited specifically for this release in order to have an Inherent Vice soundtrack of their own. That score, along with some choice cuts from Neil Young, Can, and Sam Cooke, is compiled in the official soundtrack to the film, available on December 15 via Nonesuch records. If only the audience were let in on the fun.For Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest flick, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, frequent PTA collaborator (and Radiohead member) Jonny Greenwood was called upon to craft a score to accompany the film, which follows the misadventures of private eye Doc Sportello in early ’70s Los Angeles.
A string of big-name actors make cameos in the film: Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Josh Brolin, Benecio Del Toro, Martin Short.
The soundtrack is also wonderful, with songs of the era woven throughout with more than a tinge of irony.
The cinematography is gorgeous, capturing ’70s California in both its hippy glory and upscale architecture.
INHERENT VICE SONGS FULL
Innuendo happens in almost every scene and sexual acts happen in several and are graphically portrayed, including full nudity. Constant swearing, heavy drug use, and some violence don’t hold a candle to the sexual content.
INHERENT VICE SONGS FREE
The effect is that Very Important Things That Are Profound are being said, but they are as temporary as a heroin high.įitting the era of free love and no rules, the film pushes the R rating to its limit. Reagan for closing mental health programs, meditating on the nature of time, naming people who appear without explaining why. A voice-over adds to it at random times without relieving confusion: Calling out Gov. The dialogue retains traditional film-noir cadence: stilted, precious sentences, rich metaphors, and dark observations on society. The effect is that Very Important Things That Are Profound are being said, but they are as temporary as a heroin high. Did he fantasize the girl-on-girl action? Who hit him? And why? For example, in the Asian prostitute scene, he visits a business with an X-rated name, becomes distracted when the girls start behaving badly, is hit on the head by an unknown assailant, and wakes up next to some other guy. Characters drift in and out of the frame with no introduction and exit again, leaving behind the faintest whiff that they were somehow significant to the story. They appear to be because it’s never clear what is happening or whether what is happening is inside Doc’s drug-addled brain or real life. In this case, the underbelly naturally includes the Los Angeles Police Department, the district attorney’s office, and respectable members of society, as well as beach bums, drug-running gangs, black militants, and what appear to be Asian prostitutes. When his former flame, Shasta (Katherine Waterson), goes missing, Doc is moved to get up from the couch and wander through the underbelly of Los Angeles looking for her. The rest of the time, he hangs in his far-out pad on the beach, smoking what he’s got. He’s a private eye of sorts, when he can remember what he’s investigating.
Main character Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) never turns down a blunt or a mystery.
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