Detective City Angel starts off by talking about duty, faces, and families and various images are used to demonstrate each, such as a soldier, a donkey(the democratic symbol since California is predominately democratic and is the main setting), and an open window to a house. By using images as well, the main attack of the film is deduced as well as the perpetrator. The images of a briefcase, an alarm clock, blood splatters, all drive this point home.  It was very clever of the director to use the above for mentioned images to hint at a later event, much like how during the beginning of the semester, our professor showed us a film that hinted at an eye being sliced open with a cloud moving across the moon.

      The film then lets us know it was a double homicide stick up and it shifts to the search for the suspect, who might have possible mob connections as a woman says "Those who betray me live to regret it, but not long" and a male voice says that his "Friends" might become worried about him.  Our main character, who was shown earlier carrying a suitcase,  acts suspicious while walking to a destination. Apparently he leaves a note on the wall that says "Did I leave any prints detective?" He phones a woman who may have been the woman mentioned earlier and talks with her about a man who has been following him around. He's afraid that the man that has been following him is trying to kill him, however, she laughs it off and says its pathetic and that she goes the entire day without thinking about him. The man is revealed to be a does indeed attempt to kill our hooded main character but alas, despite stunning his assailant, the hooded main character ends his story with a knife in his neck.

     Thinking over the film, I honestly expected to see the film through the eyes of the detective that would solve the case, but it turned out to be a story of the murder and that it hasn't been solved yet. The crime family that the hooded man worked for found out that he was a rat for the cops and called a successful hit on him. I'm pleasantly surprised that I was wrong about the viewpoint and premise and I quite enjoyed the film.

So we've been assigned avant-garde films within our studio to watch and review. I picked Detective City Angel as my choice. I chose it due to my assumptions of a detective film, but I'll need to tread carefully as it is an avant-garde film after all.