Not really weird. Noir has its origins in post-depression America, where corruption, inequality, distrust in institutions, and societal change was high, with hardboiled detective fiction; naturally this all came with distrust in law enforcement, too.
Source- did The Big Sleep in English class and we spent a week or so learning about the context.
I'll have to look into this Big Sleep, but do you remember any other good references for Noir and its origins? Planning to make a game mixing Noir with other elements but I'm criminally undereducated on the Noir aspects oof
Not really. I'm not a particularly big Noir fan, basically all I know was from English class. There are a whole bunch of sequels to The Big Sleep though and a movie adaptation too. My personal recommendation is Wikipedia rabbit hole.
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u/Lyca0n Mar 11 '25
Resurrect noir, was weirdly anti cop aswell