Review of The Naked City (1948) by Dominic D — 30 Jan 2008

"the naked city" is a story about one gorgeous blonde murdered in her own bathtube that triggers the police force doing the hide-and-seek of all the suspects involved, narrated in first-person voice over, but the identity of the narrator is mytically absent.

This flick is uniquely done with the ominiscient narration as the voice of the city. it settles from the dissected perspect of policeman crime-interspecting. the audience's attention is strung with each move of the coppers, thus we sense the hard effects of collecting evidences, and also realistically depicted to objectify every character as secondary except the naked city, new york itself. it demonstrates the labourous process of those trivial crime scenes on news paper that is destinated to dismiss into oblivion circularly, saturated within the existentialistic carthesis.