[Blarg]

Interesting movie, worth watching for the crazy compositions(sometimes you get a conversation with something like only one person's leg in the frame), exaggerated noir lighting and angles, and completely amoral lead hero. This was definitely not your typical noir hero who takes the plunge into the netherworld and somehow comes out clean because he carries his own moral code. This guy just stinks and gives you a greasy, queasy feeling. The same unusual lack of morality surfaces for a brief and in a way triumphant decline at the end of The Long Goodbye, with Elliot Gould, when noir morality, essentially a perverse concept, is subverted with a happy finality after long testing.