compelled

"The most powerful expression of noir narrative comes, therefore from something deeper than the iconography of the fallen, sensual angel. It comes from the unlikely relationship between passion and paranoia, a deadly combustion of flammable elements in the mobile world of bourgeois sexuality where winning is all. Success, both sexual and social, is the prime gamble in a culture of risk, but the gamble itself brings in tis wake a whole host of distrusts, shady deals, broken promises, all sorts of veiled unease concealed by smiles and laughter. The combustion, when it occurs, is a kind of perversity which produces film noir at its most compelling."

source: Orr J. , 1993, Cinema and Modernity, The strange passions of film noir; p. 159


in the spur of the moment
in the middle of the night
in the middle

to read
to find
to search
unexpectedly

to discover
to find
to copy
and paste

to explain

without fear
without shame
without veils
and fake smiles
and unease

without sleep
without dreams
without words
or rhymes
without

with

out