I'm getting the impression that the term "noir", however and
whenever it was first coined, hits a spot for most people,
which is why we're giving it so much air time. The problem is
that it seems to mean something different to everyone.
To argue about where the boundaries of noir are is crazy. I
know what noir is for me, and I know what it isn't. Or maybe
I don't. I'm not sure I'd call Farewell My Lovely noir, for
example, but it doesn't stop me enjoying that novel. Maybe
this is getting the the heart of what noir is. A noir
novel/film involves a character going slowly into himself so
that eventually innocuous signals from outside echo
deafeningly inside his head. Saying what noir is/isn't is
pointless - you have to *feel* it.
It's all irrelevant anyway, if I take after those French
existentialists and assume that none of you actually
exist.
--- Charlie Williams
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