Brick

The dialogue in this film is quite unique and reminiscent of a 1950's film noir detective story. I re-watched this with my friend Mark last night and he kept saying, this is so "David Mamet" with respect to the writing.. sing songy, and poetic. I found the dialogue to be most annoying, most of the time. If it wasn't for the great artistic direction and the overall uniqueness of the film, I would have rated it a 0 due to having to pay far too much attention and feeling like I was missing important information. On the flip side, it was hilarious to see highschool kids use 1950s film noir slang! Quite clever. The cinematography was interesting and the presentation of the overall situation was somewhat mysterious and that is what will keep the viewer. I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but why the two last names for him, is he married? His character was interesting because he was fearless but physically small. He put himself in crazy situations repeatedly. Mark and I kept wondering, where are all the kid's parents in all of this! ha ha ha.. seriously, these kids were participating in murder, drugs, and guns and only one parent was around, the Pin's.. and she would serve them cereal and milk, etc. That was why this film got a 4, bizarre and odd situations made it a lively watch. The story centers around a murder of a classmate and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Brandon who becomes an instant detective and gets to the bottom of the crime by playing each dumb kid involved.

I give it a 4 for ORIGINALITY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVzHeJ0Z3I