Sentences with phrase «doomed film noir»
This movie is pure tragedy, pure doomed film noir from the very beginning.
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Other films noirs of recent vintage can't seem to do much but ape the manners, the cynicism, and the prevailing sense of doom that typify the genre.
The flashback, circular structure of a narrative about a doomed man is an essential feature of film noir (see Sunset Boulevard, Out Of The Past, Detour, Double Indemnity, etc) and Lost Highway is structured like a Möbius strip, coiling back on itself in a way that reflects the disturbed consciousness of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events of his life in an endless loop.
The heist genre occupies its own corner of the crime movie universe, sometimes embracing the dark heart of film noir's world of corruption and desperation and doom, just as often skipping into lighthearted crime comedy or slipping into cool, calculated caper spectacle.