Film Noir Men: Living On The Dangerous Edge of Life
The men we meet in Film Noir live on the dangerous edge of life. They typically have "just one more thing" they need to do. One more robbery to score, one more deal to pull off, one more delivery they need to make. Typically this "one more" becomes the last thing they do before their lives flip over. In the 2014 Norwegian Noir In Order of Disappearance , a commercial snow plower and local mountain town man of the year Nils Dickman discovers his only son was murdered simply for being in the wrong place at the just the right time. The young man wasn't supposed to be killed, but by association, by simply knowing the wrong people, he meets his fate. Stellan Skarsgård , who plays Dickman (masterfully, as always) then spends the rest of the movie deductively figuring out who is responsible for his child's death and quickly goes from man of the year to a paternal vigilante, who won't rest until he confronts the last of those associated with the crime. It...