Remembrance of Movies Past

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2004)

A few words on the brilliance of nesting this sci-fi movie within the genre of film noir.
The look is familiar. This is post-WWII America, I would say the mid or late 1940's. You know the houses, the cars, the milieu, from countless movies.
The main characters are people of the night. A police detective, a lounge singer, a quack, an outlaw.
This is why you never ask yourself why every scene takes place during the night until the characters do. Because you know this world as well as you know your own. Because within this world, it makes perfect sense. The movie firmly places you in noir and you fill in the blanks yourself.
Try imagining the same movie taking place in the present.