Humanity's deepest desires are to escape our ultimate fate, find our dreams and realise our greatest hopes. However, as the title suggests film noir does not seek to comfort it's audience and suggest that dreams can come true. In this dark and non-linear world, cynicism, alienation and despair are dominant. People do good things for the wrong reasons and vice versa. This is a world of insecurity and the people who live in it are not straightforward or recognizable in terms of classic narrative structures. They are broken, twisted and damaged - yet we travel with them on their doomed journeys. Their own hopes are not dissimilar to ours - security, stability, freedom and even love. But they seek it in far different ways - through graft, betrayal, crime and murder.
Paul Batters
Fatalism and Futility in Film Noir
Silverscreenclassicsblog
2018
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Paul Himmell
https://silverscreenclassicsblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/fatalism-and-futility-in-film-noir/
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