In fact, the case seems almost so secondary to this film that I couldn’t put my finger on what the point was of the whole film until all of the pieces gelled together for the film’s spectacular finale.Īnd carrying the weight of the film’s psychological complexity is the masterful turn from Gene Hackman as the schmuck of a detective. More time is spent exploring what makes Harry Moseby tick in this film than is spent on the actual criminal investigation in the case. Although the Sam Spades and Phillip Marlowe’s of the world were archetypes of honor in seedy worlds, they were almost devoid actual character and depth.
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When Harry gets a job trying to find the missing daughter (Melanie Griffiths) of a faded movie starlet, he finds himself thrown into a case that not only threatens to destroy the last strands of his relationship with his life but could pose a threat to his very life when it turns out that nothing is remotely what it seems.Īlong with Roman Polanski/Robert Towne’s Chinatown, this was one of the most important film noir movies that established character development as key to the success of the genre. So, all he has to look forward to is the thrill of the chase and basking in the glory days of his short-lived professional football career. The same sure-eyed obsession that helps him always solve his cases isolates him from his wife (who’s having an affair) and any thing resembling a social life. Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a hell of a private detective but not much of a man in his private life.
Arthur Penn’s now seminal neo-noir classic Night Moves is the definition of a slow burning film but when you reach its explosive pay-off, it’s all worth it. That’s what happened with Werner Herzog’s Stroszek. Sometimes, I may not even realize I loved a film until a day after I watched it. From the first bit of dialogue between Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer in Pulp Fiction in the diner, I knew I loved that movie. Gittes’s well-maintained (but somehow seedy and desperate) office in Chinatown, I knew I was going to love that movie.
Some times, you know love a movie ten minutes in.
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