This would have bin a good story if it had bin done with adults instead of high school kids, they just don't act this way. And how can sum 17 or 18 year old run like a drug cartel. Like sum punk kid could do that without the big boys catching wind of it and is still alive. It's pure fantasy I mean these kids are just walking freely around the school were the hell are all the adults. Ridiculous
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ditto.
I love when people act like movies are supposed to be entirely correct with reality, when they are just there to entertain.
and talk crap about the movie without even getting any details right.
I was with you until the ghetto comment. Cartels have nothing to do with location. Mafias run cartels few of them are in the "ghetto" and if Pin was trying to control the production and distribution of drugs well trying to fix prices (which it seems like that was his intention at least in his neck of the 'burbs) then technically he was running a "cartel".
Maybe I am nick picking but I'm just saying if you are going to jump down the OP's throat on a fact he didn't have straight. Maybe you should have it straight to
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I couldn't buy it either. That's the biggest obstacle that kept me from becoming engaged with the story and enjoying this movie. Teenagers don't act and talk like this anywhere. I also notice that they appear around school but never spend any time in class.
I've read a few posts related to this movie that are spot-on. I have nothing new to add. I wouldn't consider this a noir movie, because noir movies tend to have a certain charm with how the characters interact with each other.
If you want to see good noir film watch The Killing.
It's not supposed to be a realistic portrayal of high school life. It's an incongruous mix of hardboiled detective fiction in a high school setting. But then neither hardboiled detective fiction nor high-school dramas really reflect actual reality either.
But it is interesting how the various high school 'types' fit so neatly into the hardboiled-typwe characters.
Agreed...they took a standard movie format and just changed the setting...I thought it was very inventive...it took me about 20 minutes or so to adjust but it was just a Detective story with highschool kids...it didn't need to be realistic...the story is what drove it. I thought it quite good actually.
"Wolves, Midgets *beep* Unicorns, they don't wanna see the black man make it" - Silas
Yes I definitely enjoyed this movie. Of course teenagers don't act like this, nor do principals make deals with students like that. It's like another poster said, taking an old genre and presenting it to a high school setting. Very different from anything I've seen and highly entertaining. The acting was amazing also. Those lines that Brendan had were definitely some tough ones.
Fruit don't talk. Fruit just listens... and waits.
As you've all pointed out, it wasn't supposed to be a realistic portrayal of high school students. But by using students, this classic film noir story took on a charmingly satirical form even though it was not presented as a farce with the actors performing their roles very seriously.
shareBy offering an intelliegent explanation you are casting pearls before swine. just tell them it's a mash-up of hardboiled detective fiction and high-school dramas. Like that wasn't obvious.
LOL. :)
share"casting pearls before swine" I'm going to make it a point to use this phrase constantly.
shareWell the thing is that the movie made up its own lingo or form of dialogue. That is why you will never see teenagers who talk like this because it was all made up. The movie takes place over a time frame of maybe a week so it is a pretty short amount of time. Also a lot of this movie is paying tribute to Noire movies such as camera angles, dialogue, and other stuff like that.
sharei'd expect to see this same comment about dialogue transplants in Quentin Tarrantino movies referring most of every cast, or Deadwood referring to a town of largely unrefined and uneducated prospectors. needless to say people are pretty quick to suspend disbelief on those I don't think Brick is too far off the deep end.
p.s. i'm just comparing 1 aspect of Brick to those critically claimed examples so don't chop my head off
It isnt suppose to be believable. Its suppose to be film-noir. Watch a few Noir films then you will get this.
shareI hate it when people say a film isn't believable. So what? It's a film, just try and enjoy it. If it isn't your cup of tea, fair enough but saying a film isn't believable is silly.
shareUm, this isn't totally unrealistic. At my high school, there was a group of kids (maybe 20-30 students?) who were incredibly involved with drug dealing and such. They almost never went to class, and used school as a channel to potential buyers. Teachers did nothing about it, and I witnessed quite a few deals going on IN my classes.
shareAre you guys high? This wasn't supposed to be realistic.
shareRight on...it was a mashup of noir stories placed in a high school setting. I don't understand why every film has to be an exact representation of reality. A little imagination never hurt.
shareHigh School Students don't act like this and neither adult of any age act like this so I don't really know why people think it would have been more realistic if they were older.
Have you seen any 40 years old acting and talking like this ever in real life?
If nothing, people in their 40's and more are usually intellectually lazy, overwhelmed by their boring life routines and brainwashed by pregiudices.
That kind of articulate talk is there more realistic from someone who is still studying and is still challenging his/her brain.
And if you really think that older people are usually challenging their brain more often than high school students, then you don't really know real life.
The characters are unreal and their dialogues too but they're LESS unreal performed by high school students that after all read everyday about history, philosophy, language and so on than by older adults that are usually involved with watching football on TV while drinking beer or chit-chatting at the hairdresser after vacuming the floor.
i wouldn't have thought this troll was believable either...
nothing's shocking, i suppose.
I agree, I was excited to watch this movie because of Joseph Gordon Levitt and OMG was I bored, I found it to be very slow and unrealistic. High School kids do not act this way.
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