Kerry J. Schooley wrote:
Transcendence is impossible, but that does not make it any
less appealing. That is another view of the central human
dilemma.
*********** Maybe you've got high expectations for
transcendence, but in the noir world, just getting out free
and alive with all your body parts is pretty close. That
happens in The Big Clock, The Black Dahlia, and The Big
Heat.
Not everybody in noir is doomed. Doom is mostly reserved for
the protagonist and a few others within the perimeter. There
is almost always particular scenes that accentuate those
outside the noir perimeter, those not swimming in the abyss.
That's perfectly understandable, of course. If everybody is
in the shitter, then it's nothing special.
In most noirs, the protagonist is doomed because of immoral
actions, a lack of personal integrity.
miker
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