The Man Who Wasn't There: Difference between revisions

There is a totally emotionless barber named Ed Crane. It's 1949 and a bald man, Creighton Tolliver, has some sales pitch about "Dry Cleaning". Ed's wife, Doris, is having an affair with her boss, "Big" Dave Brewster. Ed decides to blackmail the pair to pay for a silent partnership. When Mr. Tolliver asks Mr. Brewster for the same amount of money for which he was being blackmailed, Mr. Brewster finds Mr. Tolliver and beats the whole story out of him. From there, things spiral out of control.

 

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This film provides examples of:

** {{spoiler|Subverted, obviously.}}

** and from the second trial: "He told them to look, not at the facts, but at the meaning of the facts. Then he said the facts had no meaning."

** It ''did'' allow for a nice parallel scene between shaving the condemned man's legs to attach the electrode, and the earlier shaving of his wife's legs in her bathtub.

* [[Downer Ending]]

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: "Dry" Cleaning. {{spoiler|Subverted in that it doesn't, instead the salesman is murdered!}}

* [[Narrator]]: Ed Crane. Oddly enough, the least [[First-Person Smartass|smart ass]] person in the world.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]:

* [[The Stoic]]: Ed Crane.