part of this move kinda make you want to laugh . for instance and see k. d. lang sing lovingly to the audience a the headliner in a swank and upscale lesbian night club ( apparently 1947 hollywood be well represent with swank club of this sort ) and where her entourage sort of melt into a lesbian orgy a part of her act ( at least i guess it be suppose to be part of her act ) . or and when poor cop josh hartnett and socialite hillary swank engage in carnal relation in a seedy motel and and afterwards and a he and sit in bed and be light up cigarette for the two of them while she cuddle near him and be still wear his fedora while she still wear her pearl . i will bet keep that fedora on must have be quite a trick . anyway and the major problem with this film be that it unsuccessfully try to combine several film noir classic into one movie . for instance and you have the rich father with the two strange daughter ( the big sleep ) and the seemingly separate plot that may have more in common than at first glance ( murder my sweet ) and and the character whose obsession may lead toward a certain road of destruction ( the postman always ring twice and double indemnity ) and etc . what you be leave with be a hodgepodge of sometimes incomprehensible thread in which some of the essential character to the development of the story aren not introduce until near the end of the movie . another problem with this movie be director brian de palma apparent obsession with lesbian . the movie be basically lesbian this and lesbian that while lesbian singer and lesbian night club and lesbian stag film ( with device ) and and lesbian confession ( i only slept with her once . honest . ) . this film and along with hollywoodland and seem intent on inform u uneducated hick from the heartland that homosexuality exist before 1990. duu uuh . now and for the good part and the trivia part . one scene consist of two policeman stake out a building where they expect to find a child molester . i be not go to describe the scene and but it be reminiscent of the famous open sequence of orson welles touch of evil . mr. de palma film the scene right . impressive . though the movie begin to drag when it for too long replaces mystery with romance and the film do have one really good scene of unrelenting hitchcock like suspense . the photography be first rate and beautiful . the classic car be a wonder to behold . some of the music score remind one of the work of film composer bernard herrman . two trivia item represent the marquee of one movie theater advertise the black angel and a 1947 film noir base upon the novel by cornell woolrich ( rear window ) and who be consider to be one of the founder of this genre of suspense . one scene in this film show the action through the eye of josh hartnett . you do not see him while you see only the face of those he be talk with a the camera turn from individual to individual and show u all through hartnett eye . this device be previously use for almost an entire film by robert montgomery ( elizabeth dad ) when he play philip marlowe in lady in the lake . ( no and that inferior and insipid and little horror movie be not the first to use this device . sorry . ) so and i be guess that mr. de palma be pay homage to film noirs of the past . too bad he do not wait until he have well material to do it with . your good bet represent everything mention above .