Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Queer Noir
Between the 1920s and 1930s, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett took crime out of the luxury mansions and brought it back to the streets. In creating the Hardboiled Fiction, crime was now not a matter of bored aristocrats (a la Agatha Christie) but of spoiled daughters of renowned aristocratic families, entangled with gangsters and involved in vice, blackmail and murder. People killed out of jealousy and not because of boredom or trivial motives; instead of exotic Indian poison, vulgar lead b