Teen Noir: Brick DVD Review

[Article] The term film noir typically evokes images of rain-slicked streets, urban decay, fatalistic heroes, seductive femme fatales, and storylines drenched in pessimism, violence, and betrayal. But Rian Johnson, in his directorial debut Brick, breathes some new life into some old classics by exploring the seedy side of high schools.


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Brick was heavily inspired by hard-boiled novels by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the classic film noirs of the 1940s and 50s. The film is set in a bleak American suburb populated by high school students who evoke the personas of classic noir heroes like Christopher Marlowe and Sam Spade....
This article was published Saturday, 19 May, 2007 by AFP
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