This movie is 40’s detective movie and has its conventional protagonist, Phillipe Marlowe. I love how he’s made out as an intelligent detective, yet he can’t even trick his cat into eating a different brand of cat food, this kind of foreshadows the detective ways, in how he cannot fake anything, and this is evident throughout the movie, e.g. when the two officers come to him to ask him questions, he tries to act smart but the officers can see that he’s hiding something. It was strange how Marlow had naked woman doing yoga ? Across his apartment, yet the camera would never focus on them, they didn’t really interest Marlow. This movie is set back in time, everything is again very vintage like, life being very free and simple. It carries the ideology of having the woman as really weak and this is shown when Gould can’t control her husband thus wanting a separation. The ending was unexpected, I didn’t think that Marlowe would actually kill his friend, the one who he was protecting throughout the movie. I like how it finishes with Marlowe walking into the distance, dancing happily as if he has nothing else to solve.
Thumbs up at Arnold Schwarzenegger's popping up, made my day.
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