Crazy Mandela effect here. For the last 10 years I have remembered Lieutenant Dan making peace with his lot, pushing himself off the shrimp boat, swimming away into the sea and… dying. Offscreen of course but heavily implied to be a suicide. So you can imagine my surprise when he’s back on the boat in the very next scene. Initially thought it must be a flashback but then the timelines don’t make sense, and of course he shows up for…
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The Big Heat 1953
Probably the grittiest and most brutal of the noirs I’ve seen so far. Albeit that the worst violence happens offscreen, the descriptions of torture - thinking in particular the cigarette burns on a dead woman’s mutilated body - feel like they’re from the modern era. Fincher sprang to mind for some reason. Doesn’t shy away from the realities of said violence and the corruption at the heart of the police force it depicts. That said, it undercuts itself in that regard by ending on such a cheerful, ‘everything’s alright now’ note. Hard not to read as complacency after everything that’s come before.
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Mulholland Drive 2001
It’s going to need a rewatch. But all I can say is: masterpiece.
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