Under the Silver Lake

This is so weird and idiosyncratic that it has future cult classic written all over it. As confounding, shaggy, and yet lovable as the Big Lebowski, if you can get on its wavelength. It worked like gangbusters for me, though admittedly a big part of the appeal may have to to do with the fact that I am also a white male who came of age in the '80s and '90s. Like Lebowski was everything good and bad about Los Angeles that particularly tickled the Coens filtered through the framework of the Big Sleep and other classic detective fiction, Under the Silver Lake is borrowing Altman's already stylized and shambling LA indictment the Long Goodbye to pepper in writer/director David Robert Mitchell's own interests, obsessions, and favorite absurdities about life in the Silver Lake area of LA.

I will be the first to admit this film is not going to be for the average film connoisseur. This particular motion picture is more for film Geeks David Lynch type crowd. The director directed "It Follows" which was in my opinion an under-appreciated low budget horror film. He stays in the same vein of weirdness with this neo-noir underbelly LA mystery. Great original film it does slow down a little bit in the Final Act but it is well worth a ride.

While it's definitely not for everyone, I loved this movie. It feels like a strange mash-up of Chinatown, The Big Lebowski and Vertigo. I've always had a fascination with the just-off-Hollywood version of Los Angeles and this movie scratched that itch.