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Clip joint: Cigarette lighters

8 August 2012 3:43 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Have you got a light? Here are some of the ways that lighters have helped to illuminate a film's narrative

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"Cigarette lighters featured in films often go beyond their utilitarian function to serve as signifiers of a character's identity, becoming extensions of their owners' personas. These objects can reveal and illuminate multifaceted aspects of a character's life and psyche – including innermost secrets and desires.

Films depict cigarette lighters as tools of crime, deception, exoneration, investigation and manipulation. They are often represented as devices that drive the narrative, because the acquisition, possession and/or loss of a cigarette lighter can carry significant implications for the plot."

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