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Psychoanalysis & Narrative

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Detective Films Make It Easier, Right?

In most detective fiction, I think it's actually pretty easy to find the solution. And you never want it to be too easy. You know, there's a sense in which every solution is a lot down. Right? Like that. It's a hard line to walk because you can't have it just keep going on at infinitum. That's what mucks up the works, right? Yeah. The genius of the end - even though this is a heist movie, but it's also a detective film of the unconscious. Because like he's been investigating. He's been investigating what's actual and what's dream, the whole film. If you, if it ends

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