{"id":2132,"date":"2009-03-12T22:49:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T06:57:27","slug":"new-release-review-the-perfect-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/new-release-review-the-perfect-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release Review: The Perfect Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/l_7b80edc10452308661d3120f6fbd21cf.jpg\" alt=\"The Perfect Sleep\" title=\"The Perfect Sleep\" width=\"550\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 2px;\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Near the beginning of indie noir homage <span class=\"movie\">The Perfect Sleep<\/span>, the nameless Narrator drives off after having brutally killed an enemy and his voiceover warns us: &#8220;Some of you clever types might think this was one of those stories where everything kinda makes sense in the end. Wrong.&#8221; When I first heard that line, I thrilled a little inside, because there should always be some level of non-sense-making in a noir film, especially one that sets itself up as a cross between the hard-boiled fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and the moody thoughtfulness of Fyodor Dostoevsky. And especially one whose director, Jeremy Alter (directing his first feature), co-produced David Lynch&#8217;s <span class=\"movie\">Inland Empire<\/span>, one of the most deliriously amazing pseudo-incomprensible films of all time. But when the narrator speaks these words, what he really means is that very little is going to make any sense, ever &#8211; and that&#8217;s not necessarily as good a thing as I was hoping. On the good side, what the film lacks in narrative flow it very nearly makes up for in visual panache.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowthree.com\/2009\/03\/12\/review-the-perfect-sleep\/\">Read the rest of this review at Row Three<\/a><\/strong> (please comment over there as well)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the beginning of indie noir homage The Perfect Sleep, the nameless Narrator drives off after having brutally killed an enemy and his voiceover warns us: &#8220;Some of you clever types might think this was one of those stories where everything kinda makes sense in the end. Wrong.&#8221; When I first heard that line, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1016],"tags":[1362,1361],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35317,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/investigating-film-noir-where-danger-lives-1950\/","url_meta":{"origin":2132,"position":0},"title":"Investigating Film Noir: Where Danger Lives (1950)","author":"Jandy","date":"August 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that the TCM\/Ball State University Investigating Film Noir course is over (even if my DVR is still full!), I figured it was time to start going through the great noirs I've discovered thanks to TCM's Summer of Darkness programming. 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