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Sunday, 10 November 2024

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck#137

The Set Up

Hammett

Lady from Shanghai

Atlantic City

Double Indemnity

Vertigo

Fallen Angel

Kalifornia

They Made Me a Fugitive

Body Heat

                                           Dementia

Armee des Ombres

Raging Bull

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Peces Rojos

After Hours

Strangers on a Train

LA Confidential

2 comments:

  1. Nice menton of Atlantic City, a classic and underappreciated noir. Burt Lancaster portrays an omnipresent protaganist one sees amongst the fast talkers and hangers reflecting on their imagined glory years. They brag of a past that inflates their accomplishments and associations and gives them a sense of pride that allows them to survive. In other words, they believe their own lies and seeing other people fall for their blandishments gives them the self-confidence to continue to pretend to be somebody as opposed to the noboby they are and never were.

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