Daniel Robert Epstein: Brick director Rian Johnson

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN: Brick director Rian Johnson

Brick is a rarity in really low budget independent film, it’s exciting and dynamic. To break it down it’s a film noir set in a southern California high school. Film noir is the most malleable genre out there. You can do comedy, romance, action and now a high school movie all within this shroud of violence, sexy women and drugs.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Brendan Frye a smart fast talking high school student who isn’t above breaking a jock’s nose in order to find his missing ex-girlfriend. I got...