That Horrible Pen

This piece contains heavy spoilers for the Inherent Vice novel and film and pretty mild spoilers (if even that) for the film Under the Silver Lake (2018) and the video game NieR:Automata (2017). Content warning, also, for some brief NSFW discussion. The images used in this piece come from the trailer linked further in. I’m pretty conscious of the fact that most of the writing on this blog is about movies, with several posts about video games and only one ( maybe one and a half ) that cover television series. It was never my intention to focus so much on film, especially since, despite all the words I’ve written about the medium at this point, I’m not actually all that well-versed when it comes to the language, and there’s a certain awkwardness to any attempt to discuss some of the more technical aspects of these works. I’m more comfortable with books, ironically, but books are a lot harder to write about. There’s so much more to keep track of in terms of the sheer volume of ...