Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Night of the Hunter
This is one of my favorite noirs of all time. I love noirs though, love The Killers, The Third Man, Scarlet Street, etc. One thing that makes this film so special to me, though, is its weirdness. Like The Hitch-Hiker, this film has a lot of nature in it. As I said before, noirs are very urban. However we still get a taste of the dangerousness of the town when Ruby is lured there by the young smoking men, the town w/ its dark alleys, a place where Harry Powell seems so comfortable even though he seems to be enraged by the sex that resides there.
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ReplyDeleteSpecial people tend to be weird. In the ways that they differ from others especially. I find myself saying huh or what the when it comes to special people. The Preacher is a special case and I think he'd confuse most people the say way his wife seemed confused. You may be talking about other weird parts of this movie or weirdness including the preacher, the preacher is obviously weird. If he didn't kill anybody I think he'd still be weird.
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