John Lau wrote:
if the concept of Original Sin (you are born damned) isn't
noir, I don't know what is
***************** Although it is belaboring the obvious, it
is worth noting that most noir protagonists are quite capable
of screwing themselves without God's assistance.
The doom of most noir protagonists is brought about through
immoral behavior. I guess we could deny free will and swim in
those murky metaphysical waters, but for the most part that
is not what noir is about. I believe that the protagonists of
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Thieves Like Us, and
Nightmare Alley made choices. I am not denying that some
characters have little choice, driven by internal (Lou Ford
in The Killer Inside Me) and external forces (Stephen Crane's
Maggie) greater than they can control, but even these novels
involve a covert theme of free will on the part of the
reader.
miker
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