This is a creepy film set in post-war London
. It is a representative work of film noir. The director has not read the original text of the novel until the shooting is completed, but he has accurately adjusted the keynote of the film, making the film always permeated with the despair and tension of the small characters. He emphasizes the depiction of people who are doomed after being abandoned by strong forces. Destiny
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"Night and the City" is a typical film noir: whether it is the title, or the other The ambitious protagonist will inevitably end in destruction. The protagonist Harry was destined to die from the very beginning. He is a tragic character. As one of the characters in the film said, Harry, the "artist without art", walked over. Every criminal around him, from the forgery of documents, to the owner of Saba, to Christopher, who is in charge of the wrestling match in London, lives by a profession. They reuse the same skills in a series of reasonable profit-making transactions to make money. But Harry didn't understand this. Normal work was too slow and boring. He always looked for an amazing and exciting deal to make himself a rich man overnight. But the real world is almost never able to provide such an opportunity: the operation of the real world relies on routine, secret, and gradual transformation, rather than magical leaps
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