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Sunday, 12 May 2024

The Multiple Gates



       The synchronized, semaphorelike movement of doors throughout The Killing suggests some mysteriously vast machine, an intricate apparatus vaguely built around the horse race itself, whose very signal to begin is, after all, the precision opening of the multiple gates that simultaneously release the horses and trigger the robbery.

Haden Guest
Criterion.com
2011

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Sterling Hayden & Ida Lupino
Studio Portrait

                  https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1956-the-killing-kubrick-s-clockwork

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