Trailers Better Than Movies

Just watched the Inherent Vice trailer and it is excellent. It reminds me of the trailer for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.



Both films are convoluted and suffer from the excesses of auteur filmmakers. In rewatching Tinker Tailor, I realized a problem with the story adaptation from a movie perspective -- there was no plotting reversals. The story is a straight ahead linear narrative and deals more with the history of the characters, a history of a generation of spies, old friendships, old lovers, and ghosts from the past. It works in literature, but films are unable to explore history in the same way. Films need more gigantic movements in plot and story because the inward emotion of history and literature cannot be conveyed outwardly -- even by good actors. Tinker Tailor needed a red herring. Tinker Tailor needed a major midpoint reveal. It would've helped clarify the film.