Maybe it was supposed to do this, but I found myself not knowing who was working with/for whom and who was good or bad.
Yeah, it's a typical hard-boiled script: very surreal in its narrative development, so that you lose track of what is actually at stake (nobody cares who shot Spade's partner!). The novel is apparently very similar...
... in the same vein, Chandler's The Big Sleep is just as episodic and even more convoluted. It has a murder whose killer not even the author himself knew. (Incidentally, FWIW, the Howard Hawks adaptation stars Bogart as Marlowe, a PI not unlike Sam Spade. Check it out!)
Last edited by Capo de La Cosa Nostra; 02/11/0801:33 PM.
...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
