![]() ![]() We could play a version of the Kevin Bacon game with this movie, because Downey also starred in the movie version of " The Singing Detective" (2003), also about a detective who narrates his own story. The movie is narrated by Harry Lockhart ( Robert Downey Jr.), a would-be actor from New York who moves to Los Angeles and finds himself taking private eye lessons from Gay Perry ( Val Kilmer), a gay detective. Does that matter? Two answers: (1) No, when what is happening on the screen works as itself, without regard for the plot, and (2) Yes, when we can see that the movie is plainly spinning its wheels. "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is slowed down and straightened out just enough to that we can see it makes no sense. ![]() ![]() "Domino" makes next to no sense, but is shot in a style that makes sense irrelevant. Both of these movies may be action retreads of Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for " Adaptation," in which the process of writing the screenplay becomes part of the story. ![]()
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