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4/19/2021 12:58:18 PM
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RE: Identifying film noir
LA Confidential is more of a tribute or exercise than neo-noir. Like Chinatown and The Two Jakes, it's an attempt to re-do noir, and it's surprisingly successful. Neo-noir is basically every drama made in the last fifteen years with an R rating, grimdark characters, and narration.
Crime drama is a perfectly serviceable catch-all term.
If you want to get really arty about distinctions, look to Kurosawa's Stray Dog vs High and Low. One is a compulsion movie with Dostoevsky floating around in it; the other is more of a noir. Both are crime dramas. I'm personally fine with calling them that.
