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While these characteristics are present in many classic noirs it cannot be confined to these alone. To fully understand and evaluate film noir you must look at the many contributing factors: writers, directors, actors, settings, story lines, studios and censoring. "We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel...
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In the five decades since, no definition has achieved anything close to general acceptance. As Borde and Chaumeton suggest, however, the field of noir is very diverse and any generalisation about it risks veering into oversimplification. But they do propose that "It is the presence of crime which gives film noir its most constant characteristic? Blackmail, accusation, theft or drug trafficking set the stage for a narrative where life and death are at stake? Sordidly or bizarrely, death always comes at the end of a tortured journey...
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