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The Thin Man (1934)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
7/13
7/13:
The Thin Man kept airing on TCM all the time, so I decided to watch it to find out what the fuss was.
Wow, what an overrated, dated picture. The Thin Man embraces alcoholism as if it's a perfectly
acceptable activity that makes men more intelligent and worldly than they actually are. How little these people knew by then.
Many of them died young in their forties and fifties back then.
Like The Big Sleep, the plot is hard to follow, and even harder is the characters
to keep up with. They come and go, and I've stopped caring not long afterwards. The last fifteen minutes of the booze-filled
sleuthing adventure is full of armchair observations and scanty evidence.
All in all, you should skip The Thin Man and go straight for
The Maltese Falcon, the stuff that non-alcoholic dreams are made of.