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It is a dystopian story about an English detective named Fisher (Michael Elphick) who has become an expatriate living in Cairo. Fisher undergoes hypnosis in order to recall his last case, in which he pursued an elusive killer called the "Lotto Murderer", who brutally savaged young girls selling lottery tickets. Fisher had attempted to track down the killer using the controversial methods outlined in a book titled The Element of Crime, written by his disgraced mentor, Osbourne (Esmond Knight). Fisher is joined in his search by a prostitute named Kim (Meme Lai).

There are a number of visual motifs that distinguish the film. It is always shot at night, and it is usually raining — water figures as a prominent element in virtually all of the film's scenes. (This has led some critics of the film to draw unfavorable comparisons to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.) The film is also shot in sepia tone, which becomes more pronounced as the movie progresses to the point that some shots are awash in vivid yellows or reds; this color scheme is occasionally shockingly contrasted with blues or greens that are just as piercing. The film's pace and dark atmosphere evoke a soporific, dreamlike quality.

Also, a shot at the film's opening of a horse lying on its back and then slowly struggling to stand appears to be an homageHomage is generally used in modern English to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom you feel indebted. In this sense, a reference within a creative work to someone who greatly influenced the artist would be an homage. The original meaning of to a similar shot in Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( April 4, 1932 December 28, 1986) was a Russian movie director, writer, and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of the Soviet era in Russia and one of the greatest in the history of c's Andrei Rublev .

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• The Element of Crime at the Internet Movie Database