夜行客

Harry .@M o] _seby (Gen[,`e Hackm
an),/_ a worn-out# pri+[vate detective, is h/ired[
[ /to look f_or =-a 16-ye@`ar-old girl who h: as run!@ away=@ from the lux-
ury [?home of her mother, f!ormerly a s +(mall-. tim:e actress,+ in Los @*A[ngeles. The more the weary .:[cynic tr )`ies to:
#[`$get un der the surface^ of the se];:emingly simp.le case, the harde%r it,]^ is for h@@?]i=^m to fi-)nd his b% earings ^/am^)
)on[%g the lies an;=d [ de[c,]eption$,s that su--+%rround /)him . Eight years aft=er the key N?,ew Hol?,lyw`;.ood? fi[lm /Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur P/enn an??d Gene%.) Hack-=/man reunited to co$,llabor:@ate on what w\@`as /to( become one o*?f the mo+st unde!)rval-=/ued -film +s
of the. `\ decade. Like P olanski i= n Chinatown or  Altman^
* );`in The #Long. Goodbye, in .his rev is.i:onist =`film noir, Penn also allo]:ws the 1940s) classic$% gen#^re to pervade the complex rea[:)li,ty of the#.$;, 1-]970s. The /:]fe`[?elings of bitterness and e#mptiness in ._the modern .:_C)-hand!-ler=/esq@( ue prot(_agon%/ist o(-.:riginate not only in the “p; ublic ” sphere )of t+he stran?g=^e, i:)ncreasin-^gly conv*olu%ted c!as:e, but in his private l:ife ]as w,#ell_ (b)]oyh??ood #traum=a, *a%% broken marr%^:ia[ge). A.)s Mose ;b]:y,\? r%emar.\ks[  \of :\[a sporting event;, “n:obo=/dy’s winning …\+$, on[*e si?@ $de] is^  just losing slow^$er than the othe
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