Aug 19 2016
Out of the Past non-review
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Out of the Past is a 1947 noir thriller so brilliant I cannot do it justice. I would definitely recommend it, particularly if you’re working with…
- Characters
- Plots
- Accidental deaths falsely claimed as murder-suicides
- Double-crosses, triple-crosses, and maybe a quadruple-cross depending on how you interpret a self-defense kill with a fishing reel.
- A complex plot that is extremely easy to follow as it unfolds.
- A character falsely disgracing himself for the greater good, but more smoothly and dramatically than Batman taking the blame for Harvey Dent in Dark Knight. This is straight-up tragic.