How does the title apply?

Maybe it has to do with watching the detectives work at the video store the next day after they messed with their tapes?

The main character is always watching detective films, and the binocular thing works too. It's not a very literal title imo.

The way I interpret it, Costello's "Watching the Detectives" is essentially one big simile: Something (a personal experience?) is said to be like something else. Here, the something else is watching a detective film (there are references to long shots, cuts, etc.), apparently without being affected ("Ooh, he's so cute") by the grim events being portrayed (someone being beat up, dragging the lake for a body). Perhaps this is because the characters aren't real ("because he's got no heart"). I can't quite figure out what the "it" is that is like watching the detectives.

I sort of see this applying to the protagonist in Watching the Detectives (2007). It's a bit of a stretch, but no more than many movie titles.

It's named for the song, but the song has nothing to do with the movie. The title is because the main character is a film noir fan and owns a store called "Gumshoe Video". Simple as that.




I need my 1987 DG20 Casio electric guitar set to mandolin, yeah...