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Suspects (Paperback)
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Suspects (Paperback)
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List price R397
Loot Price R326
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You Save R71 (18%)
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Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are a
few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator
as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most
famous characters in the history of film noir. He sketches in whole
lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen. Then
these characters start to meet each other outside the films as if
they were real people with real needs and passions. The book is
becoming a novel. The names and faces are familiar to us - Jake
Gittes from Chinatown, Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker from Laura,
Rick and Ilsa from Casablanca - but is it true that Noah Cross and
Norma Desmond were lovers in the twenties, that she and Joe Gillis
had a son who grew up to be Julian Kay in American Gigolo? For the
narrator is not merely the author. Married to the sister of Laura
Hunt, he has a mission to carry out, a lost family link to find, a
thread to pull so that nearly all these disparate characters come
together to form a kind of society. Suspects is the most inspired
of commentaries on film noir and the forms of Hollywood
story-telling. It is in its way a biographical dictionary, but it
is also a dazzlingly original work of fiction, so full of America,
of an old man's dread of loss and failure, and of a simultaneous
love and rage for these movies that you may find its impossible
world as real and as touching as any you have ever inhabited.
Ultimately an examination on how movies affect the way we think and
how film not only shapes our perceptions and our memories but in
some ways comes to stand in for them, Suspects can be read as an
unsettling examination of identity and the construction of self
through the medium of narratives, or simply as a fascinating take
on movie fandom. Either way, it's fabulous.
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