Extended Reading
  • Lon 2022-03-21 09:02:19

    clothes clothes clothes...

    ? 65th movie. With Norton's uncontrollable "IF", the whole film ends~

    There is no absolute villain in the whole film, it is hard to imagine that even Norton's close friend and adoptive father, who saw the truth of the matter, was only accidentally killed in the conflict. In order to achieve his own...

  • Myles 2022-03-21 09:02:19

    [Film Review] Motherless Brooklyn (2019) 7.0/10

    Edward Norton's second directorial sally, 19 years after, KEEPING THE FAITH (2000), his long-in-gestation passion project MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN should have been awe-inspiring even it is only for the sake of its sententiously orchestrated retrospective flair, transcribed the story (in Jonathan...

  • Alysha 2022-04-21 09:02:41

    Don't change the script, big brother, the pacing is too bad

  • Braxton 2021-12-23 08:01:33

    The lens is very clever and very sensible. The thunder and the rain fell from the racial political conspiracy to the family ethics. The emotional drama really hurt the heroine and became the stepping stone, the chicken blood, and the evidence. This only played a "thing" "But I can’t see her self-will as a "person". Every scene of her is extremely long.

Motherless Brooklyn quotes

  • [first lines]

    Lionel Essrog: [narrating] Frank always used to say, "Tell your story walkin', pal." He was more philosophical than your average gumshoe, but he liked to do his talkin' on the move, so here's how it all went down. I got somethin' wrong with my head. That's the first thing to know.

    Lionel Essrog: [real life] If!

    Lionel Essrog: [narrating] It's like having glass in the brain. I can't stop pickin' things apart... twistin' 'em around, reassembling 'em. Words and sounds, especially. It's like an itch that has to be scratched.

    Gilbert Coney: [about a sweater snag] Quit pullin' at it! You're gonna make a fuckin' mess out of things.

    Lionel Essrog: [real life] I got threads in my heads. I got threads in my heads! I got threads in my heads, man!

    Lionel Essrog: [narrating] And I twitch a lot. It's hard to miss. It makes me look like a goddamn spastic, but if I try to hold it back, it just makes it worse.

  • Frank Minna: [grimacing] Got through Guadalcanal without a scratch, and I get shot with my own gun - in Queens!