"Having adapted Pynchon's Inherent Vice for the screen in 2015, Anderson has now taken a freer rein with his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller driven by pulpy comic-book energy and transformed political indignation, keeping his pedal at all times welded to the metal. It's a riff on the now recognisable Anderson-Pynchonian idea of counterculture and counter-revolution, absorbing the paranoid style of American politics into a screwball farcical resistance, with a jolting, jangling, nerve-shredding score by Jonny Greenwood."
"It's partly a freaky-Freudian diagnosis of father-daughter dysfunction juxtaposed with the separation of migrant children and parents at the US-Mexico border and a very serious, relevant response to the US's secretive ruling class and its insidiously normalised Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) roundups: the toxic new Vichyite Trump enthusiasm. Pynchon imagined the subversiveness of the 60s having its contested sequel in the Reaganite 80s;"
Vineland is adapted into a bizarre, high-energy action thriller that fuses pulpy comic-book aesthetics with political outrage. The film channels counterculture and counter-revolution themes while absorbing a paranoid strain of American politics into screwball farce, underpinned by Jonny Greenwood's unsettling score. The narrative pairs a freaky-Freudian examination of father–daughter dysfunction with the contemporary reality of migrant family separations at the US–Mexico border and critiques the secretive ruling class and normalised ICE roundups. The temporal gap between 1960s subversiveness and 1980s Reaganite backlash is collapsed into the present, avoiding explicit partisan signposting.
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