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Film Review - Is This a Fatalism Movie?

There's always some like, formal retroactivity in noir films. The flashback ties to the sense of fatalism and how you can have agency or freedom in a world that is faded evenum. I mean, not every noir has a flashback, right? But it's very canonical in the noir movement. And i think the reason is, enity doubl in tameihe does, right? Oftentimes it's from, you know, you're on the edge of death.

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