At the beginning, I interacted with the cat and dumped the cat food into the can that it likes to eat, probably to add some warmth to him. When he finally took out a gun to kill Terry, he said that it would be more logical to even abandon the cat. To be honest, killing Terry was not unexpected. In Chandler's time, anger can be restrained, turned into sadness, and in the 1970s, it can be smoothly released as a gunshot. But on the other hand, compared to the original work, Terry's role is too small, and the final self-report is even lower in style, so that the audience can't sympathize with him at all, and Marlowe has to kill him. Originally, Terry was a much more complex image.
All the process of solving the case is fleeting in the movie, only the sense of confusion and absurdity are completely preserved, even enlarged (the truth is restored without a chain link). In addition, the filming method of this film is very rich. Especially the few shots of the beach house. The Rocha couple was photographed through the glass, and at the same time, the glass showed Marlowe on the seaside where the waves were rolling. All the scenes were intertwined with the feeling of double exposure on the glass, which was wonderful.
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