Re: The Night Runner (1957)
Edited by Wisconsin Mark on 11/3/2023, 3:06 pm
That writer is assuming that the protagonist has to be the one making the catastrophic decisions. But as I tried to express, part of what makes The Night Runner unusual is that the key catastrophic and very noirish decision is made by a subsidiary character, “normal” and fully in control, but tempted to do something really rotten, which when he does it sets all the subsequent developments in motion. Am I suggesting that in this case, opening someone else’s mail is ethically worse than the murder we see? Absolutely, and I think that gives the film distinction.
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