I didn't know much about Nolan's early works. When I saw it was discussed in a certain post, I turned it over and read it again. Although it is an early work, the multi-line narrative and reversal ending, etc., are already quite Nolan's style.
The charm of old black and white films is probably difficult to describe in modern color films. Both actors are excellent, one is naive and the other is wily. The multi-line narrative relationship was discovered only in the film, and the reversal of the reversal was discovered near the end. Among them, the ease of stealing other people's homes, the meanness of laughing at the writer with his mistress behind his back, and the fact that he revealed the truth indifferently and casually at the end, all of the above still make people feel up and down.
But it's the motives that give me the slightest doubt. Is it worth fighting so hard to get rid of a gangster's mistress? Or was he simply indulging in the "fun" of clapping others with applause? All crimes have a cause. Deception within deception is wonderful, but the motives are questionable, and after all, I feel like it's a layer worse.
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