Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
Directed by Edward Norton
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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At its worst, you’ll be scratching your head as if you were trying to follow the plot fragments in The Big Sleep.
The 50s setting seems more conducive to a noirish, private-eye mystery that apes the convoluted storytelling of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep .
Without moral ambiguity, as seen in similar-minded mysteries like “The Big Sleep” or “The Sweet Smell of Success,” all suspense is thrown out the window.
The plot never crackles the way it does in, say, L.A. Confidential, another movie that overtly lifted from Chinatown.
In that sense, Motherless Brooklyn is similar to 1997’s magnificent throwback L.A. Confidential.
Motherless Brooklyn superficially evokes paranoid, sprawling conspiratorial narratives like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice and David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake.