Film noir is a genre of film in which the concepts of right or wrong become confused, NOT when who's right or wrong, or guilty or innocent, is a mystery. Otherwise all mysteries would be called "noir."
Please people, get this right.
Classic film noir darkens (obscures) the truth of right-ness or wrong-ness.
While I agree with you, I think calling this 'noir' comes from the source material (hard-boiled detective fiction and lit-noir are closely related) as well as other Marlowe mysteries being noir and thus a confused decision to lump this in by association.
"There's a thesaurus in the library. 'Yeah' is under 'Y'. Go ahead, I'll wait."
I am the first to criticize the overuse of "film noir," but this is obviously an example.
shareI am the first to criticize the overuse of "film noir," but this is obviously an example.
It's a noir, so I'm not sure why you bothered with this comment. Give it a rest.
shareSimply put, the ambiguous and gray morality of most private detectives is the definition of noir. Keeping information secret from the police because the private detective believes it serves his own best interest, yet he's also doing it because the police will either bungle it or because they're horrifyingly enough IN on it, is a very blurred line of right and wrong.
share''Why is this called, 'Noir'???''
Because it is a film noir, perhaps?!
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Film noir is NOT a cohesive "genre." It's a category that was made up by film critics decades later to try to put a wide variety of movies from the forties and fifties under a single umbrella based on certain thematic or visual aspects.
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