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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Channing"
<filmtroll@...> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to weigh in on "Match Point" which is
certainly relevant
> to discussions of noir.
>
I think you're exactly right. I think Allen is so adept in
his understanding of noir that he's been playing with it for
years. Shadows and Fog? Crimes And Missdemeanors? His source
of course isn't Lady in The Lake, but Crime and Punishment. I
also agree with you that
a lot people are put off by his noir, because unlike
the mid century American stuff, which is so Christian, about
further establishing goodness through evil, Allen has been
spending his career investigating the fallacy of goodness as
a foundation and constant. This would explain his recent
investigations of luck, with Matchpoint, and Cassandra's
Dream. Luck has also been the first and last frontier for any
deep-thinking noir fan.
Adam Haynes
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