L.A. Confidential
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Our read · L.A. Confidential (1997) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · crime · noir entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of L.A. Confidential
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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