Noir is about losers. The characters in these existential, nihilistic tales are doomed. They may not die, but they probably should, as the life that awaits them is certain to be so ugly, so lost and lonely, that they'd be better off just curling up and getting it over with. And let's face it they deserve it. Pretty much everyone in a Noir story is driven by greed, lust, jealousy, or alienation, a path that inevitably sucks them into a downward spiral from which they cannot escape. They couldn't find their exit from their personal highway to hell if flashing neon lights pointed to a town named Hope. It is their own lack of morality that blindly drives them to ruin.
Otto Penzler
excerpt from "What is Noir ?"
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