Seduce for pleasure, savor abandonment's pain.
Noir's relentless drive to embrace the past-future with no future-past modeled on a Band of Outsiders, searching for the petty cash boosting hopeless middle class corruption, heroic post-war America, domestic savagery haunting northern California redwoods Out of the Past--"Sometimes the cabin's gloomy and the table's bare/ But when he kisses me it's Christmas everywhere"--a vaccine needed for international travel, but no flight for double crossed Swede's set up in Burt's film debut, The Killers too impatient for the diner, yet hotel brooding seems interminable--"And when you kissed Robert Mitchum/ Gee but I thought you'd never catch him"--clinical depression of a man named Leslie.
At last, with dangling cigarette, face the bullets with style.
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