‎‘The Long Goodbye’ review by ScreeningNotes • Letterboxd

The Long Goodbye 1973

★★★★★

Rewatched 23 May 2021

"It's this place that's sick, not the people in it," and Doctor Verringer "is the epitome of what's wrong with this world" because he sells people false cures for diseases they don't have, he capitalizes on the misery and suffering of people who aren't sick, people whose symptoms are caused by the place they live.

The reason this place (Los Angeles; America) is sick to begin with is that wannabe-saviors (Verringer; the American Dream) sell people the fantasy of easy peace and wellbeing, they sell people a false cure for a disease they don't have. The problem isn't the illness, the problem is the remedy. The cure is causing the disease. The fantasy is rotten.

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