Through the miasma of dope smoke and spiritual malaise shuffles Doc Sportello ( Joaquin Phoenix), who at his beachfront pad in Gordita Beach is surprised to behold Shasta Fay Hepworth ( Katherine Waterston), a beautiful butterfly from his past who shows up to ask his professional help in tracking down her secret lover, big-shot land developer Mickey Wolfmann, who’s vanished. Read more Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’ to Premiere at New York Film Festival The themes of civic corruption and big-money influence and everyone having their price are unchanged since Philip Marlowe took them on several generations back, but providing this updated tale with its special pungency is the immediacy of lost innocence what was beautiful and groovy and far out up to 1969 all went south in the wake of the Manson murders, on top of which you had Richard Nixon as Southern California’s fresh gift to the nation.
Set in 1970, the year Anderson was born, Pynchon’s book is a Day-Glo doper variation on Raymond Chandler, cut with James Ellroy and Robert Towne, about a stoned white knight who can navigate the city’s power structure from top to bottom and deal with all the freaks because he’s one of them.
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