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It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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The NAKED CITY is a film that has a strange modern tone. This my statement does not apply to authentic locations or semi-documentary style. I think that tone creates gorgeous, bizarre and humorous narration. Great narrator observes the lives of ordinary people "from above".The film was made with a lot of style. At the heart of the story is killing beautiful and hot models in New York. However, the action takes us to every corner of the big city and the privacy of ordinary people. Fiction is well hidden until the very end, that detective pursuit. Then the film goes into a good detective story.Drama is superficial, details are special, but repetitive and somehow give the impression of the daily routine. Daily routine does not follow the story of the film. This movie is certainly not an ordinary day in the big city. It is true that the big news, such as murder, very soon forgotten. However, leave traces.Acting is not at all special. Standard in a detective story. Barry Fitzgerald as Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon definitely stands out, but I do not see any specialty. I think the director has not cleared himself. Focus on the city or the citizens? It is a question !?

what is art as the tolstoy small book is bitterly or with clementine appeal ribald scalding scarlet red lettered packaged red herring detail report...what is art is not a lie...what is art is beauty and not the truth....i have found and i feel that it is possible to experience the real world with a second sight, a new point of view...and art that changes your point of view for a moment is what one might really really really want...i often do. the level of the abstract real situation and not real products has a cause and effect value as the supposed oppossites may;a bit the absurd as obtuse as if for information only....the elephant in the room as being the same elephant but a different elephant room may be a look at the first elephant to the impotent and a look at the impotent for all....of course one might be naked and a city.....but it shouldn t be at the hands of the little empreor (i.e.)but at the hands of time- strife with all mankind is what was and death screams over the bells of towers of the hills of the meadows...underneath the city lies a heart made out of stone and the city will yield no ground.

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate.I have to give this film credit for pushing boundaries in the 1940s. Maybe I am wrong and maybe this was not a big deal -- after all, there is not actually any nudity or explicit murder -- but it had a gritty feel to it and when one man cracks a joke about a girl killed in the bathtub, that just seemed in poor taste.The mystery is good, and I like watching detectives track down the suspects. It does not take Charlie Chan to solve a murder this nasty and heinous, but it does take Muldoon and Halloran, who are some of the top cops out there!

This is not film-noir. It is an overrated, annoying anachronism that has not, as a whole, dated very well and this is not because of our familiarity with the style, but because of what it is. A semi-failed attempt to bring Hollywood movie making from the sublime to the streets.The voice-over narration is absolutely corny, calculated, and contrived to the extreme. The cast is pedestrian enough to be believable but the little Irish immigrant detective is comical (as is a lot of the afore-mentioned narration) and this does not bode well for a supposedly gritty game of "tell it like it is" police procedure and true crime criminals.There are some interesting cityscapes photographed with an on location realism. A few scenes worthy of Detective Fiction, but the tone is so often abruptly changed back and forth that the result remains a rather light affair that seems to anticipate TV and its family friendly cop shows that were just around the turn of the next decade.So, this is not film-noir and it is not even a down and dirty crime thriller. It is more like drama suited for the living room. It may have been the blueprint for TV crime stories to come but it also anticipated and unwittingly set the stage for a kinder and gentler genre.