alternativecandidate: Touch of Evil (1958) “If, as Andrew Sarris has said, Touch of Evil is ‘a movie
alternativecandidate: Touch of Evil (1958) “If, as Andrew Sarris has said, Touch of Evil is ‘a movie that makes you rethink what a movie should be,’ that is not simply because it has a complicated morality and psychology; what is most impressive is the way it uses a fairly unorthodox form to convey its meanings. Except in his preference for location shooting, flat lighting in the daylight exteriors, and music which usually emanates from realistic sources, Welles has ignored most of the rules of movie naturalism. His idea is to make a world that is both grittily accurate and surreal, characters that are both plausible and weirdly out of key, a film that maintains a level of serious intent even while it calls attention to itself as a grotesque joke.”James Naremore, The Magic World of Orson Welles -- source link