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"Stop it! Stop staring at me! You've never seen a human pizza before?" - Dan Dark

The Singing Detective
Apparently, film noir style movies seem to captivate me. Perhaps it is the cocky way the protagonists narrate. They seem to always be so poetic and descriptive. Vivid. Beautiful words. Or the private eye old skool settings. Granted this movie is in Technicolors, but if it were to be in black and white, there is not much to be missed out on anyway.

I have not watched a lot of Robert Downey Jr (as Dan Dark) movies, but it seems like I have. I think he is a brilliant actor. He is quite a singer too. Maybe I have seen too many Ally McBeal episodes with him in it. This happens to you when you spent too much time hogging the television with nothing more to do but switch channels.

I have wondered constantly if I will ever turn out to be those insane writers. You know, the ones that hide in their house forever trying to write something good. The ones that fall off the real world and see nothing but their fiction playing in their heads come to life. The ones that talk to themselves. The ones that end up in the cuckoo house. Hmm.

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Mexico will always be a hot orange to me, someone who has never been to Tijuana. Always in gold. The women with shimmering sweat-stained skins. The men with thick moustache and a bad guy look. Dirty and dusty streets. Cars parked with such liberty. Noise. Fiesta. Noise. Noise. Noise. Honk honk.

The movie is one of those Oscar big-bangs. One of those all-star castings like Alexander and Crash and Troy. One of those movies about worldly issues the US is trying to tackle. You know. Those that make you want to get your butt off the couch you are in and go out and do something about it. Depending on how passionate you are about things.

The movie is pretty much a flat line. You kind of know what is going to happen. The bad guy will surely be caught. There will definitely be crooks working within the force for their own benefit. A cop will die. Someone will die. The official will stop focusing on the big picture, and go back to being a father and worry about the drug addict daughter. The cop that sold the right news will end the movie watching the junior baseball league. Ahh. Happy ending.

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