We're then officially introduced to Jared Leto's cloudy-eyed character, who welcomes a naked android into the world by wiping off some of its yellow goo.
Tasting it in the shop, I was floored by the brew's character: a cloudy pale yellow with almost no head, it had the lemony sourness of a good Berliner Weisse, but was tempered with light fruity malt flavors and a wild, almost animal-like aroma from the use of the local Brettanomyces yeast, a type of wild fungus that had been chased out of industrial Berliner Weisse production many years ago.
However, the swirling, smudged, and cloudy backgrounds, which appear to situate the characters in a fog or toxic cloud of grey dust, do not add anything.
Ford himself ratified this sentiment with their actions... To the end Jimmy Carter seemed a veiled character... Gerald Ford was not cloudy.
Ted Demme (the nephew of Jonathan Demme) can't seem to activate the undercurrents; he stays on the surface, doing one thing at a time, and his characters are half formed, their motivations cloudy.
To any afficianado of Williams "Something Cloudy" is interesting to read because all the characters are recognizable people in the writer's early career, and he gives a few insights into them one does not find in his 1975 memoir.
The general character of the climate is windy and cloudy with at least 2 mm of rain falling on more than 250 days a year.
The winding nature of "Inherent Vice," in which vignettes pile up on each other and characters intersect in ways that sometimes feel increasingly vague, is as cloudy as the countless rooms in which Doc Sportello (Phoenix) lights a joint.
For O'Brien, the swelter is "an analogue for the interior climate of the characters: that brassy heat that never quite fades, meaning your head's always cloudy".
It is perfect for that cloudy expanse between older teenager and younger adult, a novel that doesn't pretend to advise, but merely sees its characters for who they really are.
