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Mental Minor 
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Mental War
trauma |
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The time is
1951 and the setting is mainly New Orleans. This |
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is a complex
story with a twist in its tail. |
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Mickey
Rourke plays, Angel, the kind of private eye who gave |
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the
description "seedy" substance. It's one of Rourke's best |
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parts. He is
hired by an effete Louis Cyphre played by DeNiro. |
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His task is
to find Johnny Favorite. He was a singer who |
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disappeared
in 1943 and was last heard of in a hospital in |
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New York
state. He's there because of some kind of war |
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Angel's
first call is to New York state but in no time he's |
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following
the trail to New Orleans. Murder piles on murder, |
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red herrings
come in netfulls and a few chickens are ritually |
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slaughtered.
The significance of the involvement of war |
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trauma is
seen only in retrospect at the end which I won't give |
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From the
novel by William Hjortsberg "Falling Angel". |
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