8/6/2023 0 Comments Night moves 1975 x videosHe doesn't seem so much obsessed with the past as unhappy with the present. Glory Days: Harry's past as a pro football player.Delly's death/probable murder pulls him back into the case, but he misses important clues, and even at the very end he doesn't really understand the crimes he's been investigating, and may not even make it through alive. Before we had a union." It turns out it's still true, but it does him little good. Arlene asks Harry if he's the kind of detective who never lets go of a case he jokingly responds, "That was true in the old days. Fille Fatale: Delly would like to think she is, but her naivete gets her killed.Downer Ending: Paula is dead and Harry has been shot far out at sea and may never get back home, and he still doesn’t fully understand the mystery he was trying to solve.Distracted by the Sexy: The night Delly finds the sunken plane, Paula seduces Harry so Tom can go out and check it out without Harry noticing.(Though this has no real effect on Harry's investigation, since he doesn't even find out about it until the very end.) Dismantled MacGuffin: Paula says that Tom and his cohorts have been smuggling pieces of some priceless antique into the country one at a time.Disappeared Dad: Harry's father disappeared when he was a child (and possibly his mother, too it's unclear).Deadpan Snarker: As a film noir this has a lot of snark, but Paula is the main culprit.(This is a metaphor for Harry's own inability to see the truth of the mystery unfolding around him.) The title of the movie references both this game and the fact that certain key scenes take place at night. Emmrich and Bruno Moritz in which Moritz could have won the game if he had seen a play requiring three knight moves, but he played something else and lost. Chess Motifs: Harry takes a little chess board with him everywhere he goes, and references a game played in 1922 between K.
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