Brick Screening Report

Rian Johnson's Brick is a neo-film noir film in the atypical high school setting. This puts a twist on the common aspects of the genre. The fact that such a grave and serious tale is set in a high school is a very interesting and deliberate choice that Rian Johnson made to make the audience think about how age and perspective go hand in hand. When looking back on high school, everything seems trivial. But while you are actually in high school, any issue is of the utmost importance at the time. Mixing the very real and grim aspect of murder with the immaturity of high school adolescence creates an interesting dynamic which I have never seen in another film before.