To boot, Brick is equipped with its own vernacular of high school street slang. (i.e. Take a powder – to slip away; e.g., “Why’d you take a powder the other night.” or Yeg – a guy; e.g., “They’d probably find some yeg to pin it on.”) And as I mentioned above “pin,” is also used in the film as a noun, slang for drug runner.
With all this emphasis on morphology and cultural lexicon, you can see why this film just might be a critic's dream. Brick has already received early acclaim, snagging a Special Jury Award at Sundance last year for “Originality of Vision.” At its premiere at the Austin Film Festival, it was met with similar enthusiasm.
As background, writer/director Rian Johnson (May) wrote the script seven years ago and like many rising filmmakers spent a great deal of time trying to finance the film. He’s spent the last year of which shopping it around at various festivals. With a national release date set for March 24, 2006, the final product warrants some attention. In other words, go see it.
For more on “Brick,” be sure to check out the trailer and imdb link.
Article comments
1 - Jack
Beth...great job!