Brick
#1 in my 2007 movie challenge, Brick was from the library, so I broke my vow of borrowing less right away. It’s a noir thriller set in high school. The humor is dark, and the dialogue fast, jargon-y, and often hard to follow. It’s entertaining, and I like Joseph Gordon Levitt, and thought he did a credible job as the bitter loner trying to find his ex. But I found the movie as a whole faintly absurd, often purposely so, as in the kitchen scene with a character’s mom. The heavy dialogue and the often brutal actions (only one of which was shown, and then not closely) hung strangely on the young actors, as if they were playing dress-up in a movie beyond their years.