CINEMA No man on the mean roads of the Outback: Goldstone

The detective as knight-errant is a key character in the modern imagination. He enters into the story to solve the mystery and thus restore order.   Aaron Pedersen as Jay Swan. Such stories are tragedies told backwards, for the protagonist is not the detective but the victim, as the great Ross MacDonald, author of the Lew Archer stories, argued. The detective acts as a sort of a Greek chorus, one who in discovering the truth, reveals it to the audience. But the detective is not just the discoverer – he is also the avenger, the agent of Nemesis, who enacts…