The Pale Blue Eye: the Netflix investigation with Edgar Allan Poe inspired by a true story?

The Pale Blue Eye the Netflix investigation with Edgar Allan

“The Pale Blue Eye” is the new sensational film on Netflix starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe.

The Pale Blue Eye is the latest sensation to discover on netflix. This film carried by Christian Bale and Harry Melling was released on the streaming platform on January 6, 2023. Subscribers can discover a police investigation which takes place in 1830 within a military academy and which features a certain… Edgar Allan Poeplayed by Harry Melling (Harry Potter). If the film shows him in his youth when he is only an eccentric cadet, let us remember that he will become one of the most influential poets and novelists of the 19th century.

Faced with the presence of this writer well known to the public within the plot, one can legitimately wonder if The Pale Blue eye is based on a true story. Not so, the detective plot subscribers can follow in the Scott Cooper-directed film, and his investigation with Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is totally fictional. Nevertheless, Edgar Allan Poe did find himself in the ranks of the military academy at West Point in 1830 and did indeed lose his adoptive mother, like the character in the film. note that The Pale Blue Eye is the adaptation of a book by Louis Bayard.

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