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It can be - it can be hard to keep track of those things because lunch - lunch is a lot of things, lunch is difficult.

No 489 - Brick Director - Rian Johnson And so, after Trainspotting... we continue the heroin theme This is a very difficult film to infiltrate. I've seen it twice now and whilst I know what is happening, I don't understand the hows or whys. It seems that every character speaks in an impenetrable way. It isn't the accents, or the words themselves. Rather the delivery. A punchy, beat driven, hip cat way of speaking. That is beautifully melodic, impossibly cool and which washes over you. You get the drift of what has been said, but you wouldn't be able to recount any of it. However, this plays to the films strength. Because it sounds like a gritty 1940's film noir . The language, the politics, the femmes fatales are all present and are all correct. This is the world of the private investigator. Set in a high school. We have the aggressive, introverted, quiet loner, acting as the private detective (he'd probably be a chain smoking alcoholic if he wasn't 15)...