Tuesday, 7 January 2025
Noir Revisit and Staying Back
I love noir as a genre. I love hardboiled. I thought noir and hardboiled are passé but it is in past few years I realised that noir and hardboiled would probably live as long as humanity and politics live. I used to love reading and watching noir and it's just in the past few years my interest in it dwindled only to make me realise that noir and hardboiled is here to stay just because morally speaking humanity is irredeemable and it has always been so, there are just pockets or islands of happiness in which people reside as long as they can do it. I have seen that when people have absolute power, things more or less follow Murphy's law. It's not like the situation is like this only in this country, it's a worldwide phenomenon, situation is worse in this country only because of poverty, mismanagement, incompetence and needless gatekeeping and when you realise that it is all intentional then you realise that this country is actually at par with other countries. I find it funny because when I was sixteen I wanted to leave the country and go to the US and it is past my thirties I realised that it is better to be discriminated against in your own land than be discriminated against somewhere else. This realisation doesn't work for people who went out of their land or country in search of greener pastures unless they learn about the invisible arrangement of the world which only shows itself in two cases, if one is too fortunate or too unfortunate. In my case it had been both, I have been too fortunate as well as too unfortunate and finally I realised that my desire to go to the US when I was sixteen wouldn't have done me any good personally, except keeping me in a feel good delusion which could have lasted as long as it could last. Now, I know the truth of the arrangement of the world and I'm in my land and on my soil. I prefer suffering with the majority than being with a minority that enjoys abundance by actively depriving people of the basics just for the sake of it. This country is ripe for noir and hardboiled, and many media, film and television have adapted the approach. In fact a lot of media, film and television take inspiration from noir. I personally like stylized noir and hardboiled which basically means American noir and hardboiled from around mid 20th century. A good example of the kind of noir I like would be the graphic novel and the movie Sin City, and the game Max Payne. There is a Spiderman Noir television series under production and it is exactly the kind of thing I like. I have written quite a bit of noir stuff and have read a bit too. The short story collection A Baum Plan for Financial Independence by John Kessel, if I remember clearly, has a bunch of noir stories, the kind of which I like. I have books of American noir pulp but I haven't got time to read them, guess I should visit them in free time.
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