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A film noir movie is a like a drug, an hallucinatory drug. The movie itself grand and exciting and wonderful, but the real treat start when you are out of the cinema, when the trip begins. The sense sharpen up, the worlds slows down. You are both fully alert and calm. You are able, and nothing stands in your way. Your life becomes a film noir, and you become the hero. The rugged fellow with the tough look and the slow voice. The careless anti-hero with his weaknesses and addictions, and the slow world revolving around. This is when a film noir really reveals itself to be what it really is - a fix. And the real experience - the post-fix.
Brick is that kind of a flim noir experience. To me it was like going back to my childhood and watching Parker Lewis (to these of you who remember), a dark version of Parker Lewis, very dark, it’s like I took with me all these years, dragged it and tainted it, darkened it. And it’s all in high school (now this is the point that makes this a true master piece).
Links:
IMDB entry
Official website (including the original script)