The Set up was a simple movie with some many layers of losing love of old age and the evolution of a man seeing himself as what he could be what he was and what he is. Being about a boxer wishing he could go back to his glory days. Something you can take away from the film is that it’s a look at how boxing was at the time there were no rules and people got hurt badly and it humanize the boxers in a way so when we see them crowd of people yelling for blood you feel bad for the boxers for you know  their plight  . The films climactic scene was a brutal one with in the ring and out you can see stoker not backing down wanting this one and when he knows his manager and trainer set him up for a fall you see more of that resilience.

The noir elements are seen in the end to showing a sense of fear and tension that’s for stoker as he is running from the mobster and you can see and odd little scene at the end where you can compare a tragic moment with a happy moment of stoker got beaten up by the mob on the same scene a happy drunk couple enjoying themselves give that scene a juxtaposition and making it feel more tragic and heavy. I would say this film is not a full noir movie but with beautifully tragic scenes and a protagonist you feel fore I would say this movie is worth having in your collection.