private detective   bar   based on novel   beating   kidnapping   alcoholic   father son relationship   corpse   new york city   unsubtitled foreign language   urban setting   flashback   diner   ransom   dismemberment   blood spatter   severed leg   character repeating someone else's dialogue   cell phone   drug dealer   car crash   severed finger   strangled to death   brother brother relationship   butcher knife   alcoholism   telephone booth   van   freeze frame   flashlight   loneliness   child in peril   intruder   tape recorder   stabbed to death   year 1991   three word title   apartment building   bound and gagged   body in a trunk   drawing   sniper rifle   witness protection   private investigator   southern gothic   bloody body of child   garrote   drug addict   breaking a mirror   shot in the side   shot in the eye   death of wife   target shooting   taser   body landing on a car   stabbed in the shoulder   murder of wife   handcuffed to a pipe   being followed   nude painting   snuff film   ex cop   groundskeeper   alcoholics anonymous   body in a dumpster   cleaning up blood   month in title   dea agent   homeless teenager   year 1999   child with gun   greenwood brooklyn new york city   reference to y2k   reformed alcoholic   sickle cell anemia   army veteran   neo 80s   frame shop   dog   cemetery   death   hospital   murder   shot to death   reference to sam spade   hit with a baseball bat   brooklyn new york city   handcuffs   suicide   sadism   scene during opening credits   written by director   bulletproof vest   home invasion   kicked in the face   violence   husband wife relationship   shootout   mariachi band   slow motion scene   investigation   rain   falling to death   gun   photograph   punched in the face   shot in the leg   shot in the chest   library   wheelchair   psychopath   pay phone   dripping blood   shot in the head   topless female nudity   death of child   neo noir   pistol