RARA-AVIS: Re: Welcome to Vicki Hendricks, guest of honour

From: thebradstevens ( bradstevens22@hotmail.com)
Date: 08 Apr 2005

> I agree that most noir protagonists create their own doom by either
> crossing some line (murder, bank robbery, infidelity, etc.) or just
> being psychologically broken, but how did the protagonist in Detour
> create his own doom, other than being a hapless victim of bad luck?
>
> -Dave

There's a really good piece on the film in Ian Cameron's THE MOVIE BOOK OF FILM NOIR that addresses this question. But if you look at the film carefully, you'll see that the protagonist is directly responsible for all his bad luck.

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