Bien dit....precisely...it is a mecanism in which all the cogwheels are
defined and set...crazies included...none of these characters are
questioning, themselves, existence, raison d¹être...they act along their own
set and since there is a strong plot it creates tension in the viewer...but
nothing in these characters is disturbing, challenging, upsetting their own
existence, their own validity...and/or ours by the same token...and nothing
in shooting style, acting (and casting), edit...leads us another way...
Enough...
Montois reaching cocktail hour...(I should say apéritif...)
On 7/15/09 10:47 AM, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "Jeff Vorzimmer" <jvorzimmer@...> wrote:
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>>> > > Steve, I agree with you. The movie Psycho is not noir. The Bloch book is
>>> not noir either. It's a horror thriller (!). By the way, the book is
>>> excellent, better than the movie.
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>> > Then nothing by Bloch would be considered noir. Do the psychotic characters
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> The presence of crazies per se does not disqualify a work from being noir (The
> Killer Inside Me, and many others), but my instinct tells me that Psycho is
> not noir. There is no existential predicament in that movie.
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