u/Hangaroid

Gee-whiz I didn't know what I was getting into. I was familiar with the detective type of movies, but the other ones can only blow their candles and wish they were Chinatown.

I'll keep this short because I got to make it to work in 20 minutes. Everything from the setting, the characters, the writing of the story is an absolute 10 from me. Maybe I am not as acquainted with noir, or in this case "neo-noir", as everyone on this subreddit, but if this is the way they do things around here it might just have me wearing a fedora, drinking whiskeys and smoking cigars because this stuff slaps. I kind of get the same feeling as when I started watching westerns, it's just such a big world and athmosphere that these kind of movies pull you into.

I'm trying not to spoil anything here for anyone that still might want to watch the movie, but boy can you still draw some parallels between what's going on in the movie and what's going on in the world. >!I think the lines "Let the police handle it." followed by "He owns the police!" and the "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown." are going to stick to me for quite a while.!< And no matter how depressing it might be, I generally agree with the message of the movie and I do sort of cling to the idea of staying out of the crossfires. I get that I might get a bit of criticism for that philosophy with what's going on in the world reaching new limits, but I tend to keep to myself anyway.

If anyone has any recommendations on where I should go watching neo-noir from here on, please leave some. I've got The Long Goodbye on my radar so don't spoil none of that to me.

Have a good day :)

Every once in a while I try to delve into the history of how cocktails we know today came to be and learning about how Old Fashioned got its name inspired me to make one.

• 2oz of Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey

• 1 sugar cube

• 4 dashes of Angostura bitters

• A splash of soda water

• Garnished with a lemon peel, an orange peel and a Luxardo maraschino cherry

I made it in the glass. Placed a sugar cube, soaked it with Angostura bitters and very little soda water. Muddled it all into a grainy syrup-like mixture. Poured in the whiskey. Put in a large ice cube and stirred until the outside of the glass was frosted. Garnished and voilà. Old Fashioned.

So the story goes, people didn't have ice back in the early 1800s and they just made whiskey, sugar, bitters and instead of ice they just put plain old water. At the time that is something they called "a bittered sling". Then came about the Improved Whiskey Cocktail. Same thing, but now with ice and whichever fruity liqueur they'd get their hands on. So maraschino liqueur, orange curaçao etc. Some people were fine with that and then there were some people that wanted it "the old-fashioned way". I found that really cool and wanted to share it, so there you go.

Just watched Chinatown for the first time