The Big Sleep - Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in a scene from The Big Sleep. 

How many beautiful femme fatales parade in front of our ecstatically eyes?  

How many temptations does the immovable hard Marlowe come face to face with? 

How many dark intrigues and machinations entangle our minds?  How many are killed and by whom?  Surely the avalanche of deaths of so many involved people like Harry Jones, Joe Brody, Eddie Mars, Carol Lundgren, Lash Canino, Owen Taylor and Sean Regan, leaves us helpless in a maze... 

Maybe that's the beauty and magic of the movie after all! 

While its plot has been criticised as 'cryptic' and 'confusing, the movie is about the process of a criminal investigation, not its results.results.The fact that your attention has to race to keep up with Marlowe's mind is a major part of the film's appeal. Instead of just watching the detective, you become a detective yourself. 

The closer you are to Marlowe's shadow, the deeper you enter the role of detective...

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