Johnny is dying, but he is also a killer ; his first words when Dennis finds him in the air-raid shelter are "Did i kill that man ?". It really is his guilt that cuts him off from other people - why they can't or won't help him - yet this remains strangely submerged beneath the more immediate fact of his desperate plight. His separation feels existential rather than circumstantial.
Death and the City
Imogen Sara Smith
(on Odd Man Out)
Criterion.com
2015
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Odd Man Out
1947
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