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So here's a question... Can noir be written outside of first person? I don't think I've ever read it done any other way now that I think about it.

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I think it can, but it may be in a more blended or cross-genre style to pull it off - see Jon Mollison's "Neon Harvest" https://amzn.to/4gZt4mQ

It has elements of Dark City and Mulholland Drive to it, of all things, but neither nihilistic nor celebrating the degenerate

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The big reason I ask is that because of the story I'm working on, I'm writing in 3rd person close and am kinda worried that because you don't get the literal internal monologue it robs the noir of a trademark trope. I mean the other option would be to try omniscient POV, but even I'm going that's sorta weird.

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No love for "Double Indemnity" in your movie list? That's peak Film Noir IMO.

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"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."

Sheer gold.

I hadn't given much thought to the kind of murder mystery, the "Whodunnit?" that comes off like a game of Clue. And Chandler is right about how contrived they are.

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So... straight up noir, no SF/F elements?

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Nobody said that.

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Thanks for the clarification.

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