![]() ![]() His adaptation is neither a free-spirited reworking of Pynchon’s novel nor an obsessively dependent replication of it. ![]() ![]() In the process, Doc-working through his cannabis haze-uncovers a network of intertwining conspiracies involving the police, neo-Nazis, gangsters, drug dealers, dentists, rehab facilities, rock, protest, the Federal government, and the old-line New England establishment.Īnderson's reverence for the book confines the movie between its covers. The movie, set in 1970, stars Joaquin Phoenix as Doc Sportello, a private eye in Gordita Beach, California, whose ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), coaxes him to investigate the disappearance of the wealthy real-estate developer whom she had left for Doc. Rarely has a film trumpeted its subtexts so blatantly: Anderson anoints himself as Altman's spiritual heir he’s intensely nostalgic for Altman's late-sixties/early-seventies heyday and in filming a drama set at that time, he’s going to blow the lid off the stew of conspiracies corrupting seventies America and the sixties' utopian dreams. Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of "Inherent Vice" bears the burden of his manifest devotion to Thomas Pynchon, but it's second to his apparent devotion to Robert Altman. ![]()
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