During the Great Depression in the US, from 1929 until the end of the '30s, Hollywood turned out a wide variety of films, many of them gangster movies and dramas, sharing a common style _ noir. Film noir denotes hopeless situations and desperate characters, with downbeat endings that often involve death, prison, emotional sacrifice and lost love.
Noir literature, often the source material for the movies, never had the same impact as when viewed on the silver screen, and it soon all but disappeared. It pops up again in Bangkok Noir, a collection of a dozen short stories, edited by Christopher G Moore.
Instead of reading one story a day as I probably should have, I read them all in one sitting, and they blend into one another in my mind.
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- Writer: Bernard Trink
- Position: Freelance Writer
