Would u consider the movie 'Brick' nouveau film noir?

Question:what do you think?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: what do you think?

Yep. I saw that movie some months ago. I totally loved the end of it, where that mean ***** tells the dude that his girlfreind didn't really love the father of her baby..... and basically he was the father, and he had gone through all that stuff for nothing.
Great way to show that love doesn't count if the other one doesn't love you back. No matter what you do, it's of no importance.
Sad, eh?

Yes. It's in the film noir style and it's new (nouveau). Femme fatale, cynical investigator, cops dumb as hell, etc...

He solved the crime. What else is there. What more do you want.

Additional: this is also typical of film noir. There is a resolution to the film but no happy ending for anyone.

Don't know if this is relevant but I believe the main character's speech at the end of the film was meant to resemble Sam Spade's speech to Bridget O'Shaughnessy at the end of The Maltese Falcon. I think there also other parralels to The Maltese Falcon. The character, Kingpin, is reminiscent of the Sydney Greenstreet character in Maltese Falcon. The brick plays a similar role in the plot as the maltese falcon.
I am sure there are other resemblences since The Maltese Falcon appears to have been a major influence on the filmmaker.

A lot of the unusual slang dialogue in the movie was also meant to resemble the sort of underworld slang of cops and criminals that you see in a lot of film noir. (Well, at least American film noir from the 30's and 40's.)