That Laura clears room for the advance of Lydecker, Carpenter and McPherson is a credit to the film's economy and leads the way for future feminist interpretations. Such a feminist reading reveals Laura to be the victim of three men - all are just pesky at first, until they are spurned and become agressive. The late critic Robin Wood, who noted the fluidity and hybridity of genres, might have seen the film as a comedy of suitors gone nightmarish.
Matthew Sorrento
Senses of Cinema.com
2013
You've got to go through two doors to get into the bar. An outer door, down a short hall, then through an inner door. It's built that way so no sunlight leaks into the place. Sunshine never gets into the Regent. No windows, no skylights, nothing. High noon on the Fourth of July and the joint is as black as a mine. That way you can drain your lunch without feeling that you're a midday alky. Not that any of the people in the Regent are the type of people who'd let a little thing like sunshine or time of day slow them down. Booze just tastes better in the dark.
Love is a Racket
John Ridley
1999
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Leslie Petersen Sapp
I Wake Up Screaming
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“Listen, kid, you got everything figured out so close. What sense does it all make? What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world? Some guy that likes to tear the wings off flies? What use is there in living and starving and fighting the next guy for a full belly? It’s a nut house. And the biggest loonies are at the top".
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
1946
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Bobby Ziek
Sinatra
She was the type that definitely never came from round these parts. She seemed to be here for only a short while, ran rings round us all. We blinked and she was gone.
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Carla Smith - The Square
Trinity - Matrix
