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2024
- 20.500.13089/130u9
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film noir Stanley Kubrick gambling race-track TimeSujets proches
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Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard, « Corruption and dreams of racing against time: Stanley Kubrick’s heist film The Killing (1956) », Film journal
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This paper is a study of corruption in Stanley Kubrick’s heist film noir The Killing (1956). It discusses the main theme of the plot: the perversion of legal gambling by a gangster in order to steal the money from the race-track at the right moment, and run. Other members of his team are tempted by their own secret plot, which causes many deaths among them. An ironical twist in the gangster’s last attempt at escape shows his major error has been to believe he could corrupt the laws of universal Time.
