I too love and respect Paul Thomas Anderson's work but it seems that he was trying to make some sort of «
stoner noir film» here, but maybe he was inhaling too much wacky tobaccy himself while making it!
Anderson's seventh feature
film is a groovy, richly funny
stoner romp that has less in common with «The Big Lebowski» than with the strain of fatalistic,»70s - era California
noirs («Chinatown,» «The Long Goodbye,» «Night Moves») in which the question of «whodunit?»