![]() ![]() I argue that the Coen brothers` The Man Who Wasn`t There is a neo-noir that addresses both aspects of existentialism: the condition of despair in film-noir and the individual struggle to create meaning out of despair as per Kierkegaard. While Kierkegaard`s idea of existentialism centers around the importance of relating to one`s self in order to make meaning out of despair, the existentialist universe of film-noir is a world devoid of all hope and meaning, let alone possibilities of ever creating meaning for oneself. ![]() Søren Kierkegaard is the father of existentialist thinking, and this discipline of thought is the philosophy of film-noir, a collection of black and white films produced in postwar America. ![]()
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