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And apparently i am a noir person because damn

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The fade out is about the murder of a starlet in postwar hollywood where theres so much money corruption and violence against women that justice seems unlikely

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The brooding color scheme amplifies the suffocating atmosphere where everyone has to watch his back

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But just remember that in noir there are no happy endings

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The tone is also set by how our main character screenwriter charlie parish is introduced to us—hung over in a strange bathtub with little memory of last night’s wild party

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Simon clears away any signs of his presence and leaves but turns out that’s the smallest coverup going on here

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Soon the reader is following along a twisted path of drunken recollection and unreliable memories related by a guy who may or may not be the killer of a girl whom “he’d liked more than most of the actresses he knew

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Other characters or perhaps suspects nicely presented at the start in a starkly drawn black and white cast of characters we follow either from their pov or an outside view include earl rath — “dashing leading man” gil mason — an exscreenwriter now blacklisted as a communist dottie quinn — the studio’s pr girl phil brodsky — head of studio security a job he takes very seriously victor thursby — founder of victory pictures who now feels “trapped” in his life and maya silver — the “replacement blonde” who takes valeria sommers’ place on the picture