This is a good question. In the majority of hardboiled
detective stories you'll find a philosophy that flaunts
vigilantism, with the end justifying the means.
Someone suggested that the noir and hardboiled philosophies
are similar. Well, hardboiled to me implies tough, and noir
implies screwed, so I see a big potential for a significant
difference in the range of implied philosophies. Noir
oftentimes is associated with a pessimistic determinism, a
lack of power to exert any meaningful control over life.
Opposed to this, almost all hardboiled detective stories
involve the detective effecting significant control over the
outcome.
miker
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