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Title: Why was this filmed?
Review: I fell under the spell of Jim Thompson's great short novel "This World, Then the Fireworks" about ten years ago. The story was absolutely unforgettable pulp fiction--mysterious and multilayered. Why, oh, why, did somebody attempt to translate it to film? One may as well try to literalize a poem. Horrible. Comes across as a joke, a pantomime, some kind of weird Hollywood B-actor salute to noir: Billy Zane and Gina Gershon? Gawd. Read the story. Skip the movie.
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