Film Noir Archetypes- The Voice-Over Flashback
Most film noir movies don't use the flashback/voice-over technique of storytelling, but this technique has become closely associated with film noir for two main reasons.
One is that a few of the most iconic noirs do make use of it, so people who have only seen a handful of the true classics are more likely to associate this technique with noir. The other, and I've never seen this commented on elsewhere, is that the use of a voice-over closely replicates the tone and feeling of the novels on which a lot of noir movies were based.
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