miker wrote: Complexity of character is not what makes the
reader identify with the protagonists in The Postman Always
Rings Twice, Killer Inside of Me and a lot of other
noirs.
************ Patrick replied:
Oh, yeah? It's certainly what allows me to identify with
them. Shallow characters lose me third chapter, tops. What do
you think does, then?
I'm with miker. How complex are Frank and Cora in Postman?
They seem pretty simple, with a simple motivation, lust. And
it's that simplicity, and transparency, that makes them
fascinating characters as they follow their lust to murder,
then have their plans unravel. I'm not sure I so much
identify with them, except for a touch of "there but for the
grace of God [or fear of punishment, God's or man's] go I,"
as I can't look away from the car crash of their lives so
finely told by Cain.
Mark
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