why oo why

Why oo why

The end of this book was not very satisfying to me. do to the world wind of love, hate, pain, envy and murder that went on unjustly; between the two characters Walter and Phyllis. I believe that there should have been some hard jail time served. and if possible death by the gallows for Phyllis. The murdering of Nerdlinger and the six others that were murdered, do to Phyllis, seem to have got no closer. its as if she got a way with it all. Justices had not been served and its all because of the so called detective Keyes. He allowed Phyllis and Walter to walk right out of the state. And he put them on a boat with different names. although they had put the crime it in the papers and the captain of the ship seem to recognize whom they were Keys still had not given any justice to those who had died. It seem as if everyone in the novel had there own agenda. Even little mss Lola. . In other words the overwhelming murders that happen by the heads of the this psychotic woman didn’t even send her to jail instead she got a “get out of jail free card”. in double indemnity regarding the fatal Phyllis I strongly believe that Walter and Phyllis should have gotten different treatments do to the fact Phyllis had been murdering people for some time. Walter on the other head came in on only one account of murder. So yes it should have been a little different.

You cant fool me

Most good noir tales involve a detective who is able to solve the crime. In the book double indemnity one of the top insurance guys named Keyes seem to represents the detective like figure. He over whelmed me with his knowledge of how the crime happened . He seemed to have known how the criminal be hide the incident thought and how he or she put it together. His hard work and dedication to his company showed up, as he expulsed what he suspected the master mind of the murder had done. He wanted to investigate every aspect of the “so called” accident that lead to the death of Mr. Nirdlinger. And he wanted to especially start with the wife. He quoted “I advise filing an information of suspected murder against her, and smashing at her as hard and as quick as we can”. this showed that. Mr. Keyes had been in this business long enough to know what a murder looked like and he was not stupid. He understood that the wife had a motive for the death of her husband and a good one. The noir films over flowed with criminals that seem to have it all to gather. Ones who kept in mind that the police would look at it as murder but would never figure it out as murder. but there was all ways a detective who seem to be two steps ahead of the master mind in motion. Keyes kept in mind that this could just as will be a murder.

The Wayward Woman

“The females in film noir are either of two types - dutiful, reliable, trustworthy and loving women; or femme fatales - mysterious, duplicitous, double-crossing, gorgeous, unloving, predatory, tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative and desperate women” (primary characteristics of film noir handout). in the book Double Indemnity the women named Phyillis had a lot of these characteristics of the femme fatales that appears in the noir films. She seemed at first a very sweet trustworthy woman. But she was not. She was unloving, irresponsible, unreliable and manipulative. And that was just some of the things I saw in her. I feel that she is this way because her thoughts of killing her husband had been playing out in her head long before she met up with Huff. Then she talked as if she was going to let her husband know what huff wanted, but all alone saw an opening to do what she had planed. And she only wanted to do it for the money. Not because he had cheated, or was abusing her; you know the things that normal people think are maybe okay to have thoughts like that about. But only for her love of money was all that she could come up with. She said “ I haven’t any reason. He treats me as well as a man can treat a woman. I don’t love him, but he’s never done anything to me”. “yes god help me, I’m going to do it“.(Double Indemnity. By James M. Cain page:18) (phyillis) yes I know she was crying when she said these words but that didn’t change the fact that she wanted and plotted to kill her husband.

noir at its best

NOIR can be described as a dark depiction of some of our crime infested society today. the visual aspect of Noir was largely inspired by Germans and Austrians. In World War 2 people found noir to be an interesting and entertaining way of escape during a time of depression and war.
The style of noir originated from authors such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Chain. Noir was once a genre of films that was widely watched and fallowed now the style only appeals to a certain type of audience. Such as film students, critics and most ardent and generally up scale film enthusiast. (the arts) A large amount of the audience has decreased mostly in, my opinion, because of color TV. Being that noir was mostly black and white films the aspect of color would change the dark side of the noir flavor.
Some of the styles from noir do remain in a nice amount of are films today. A consist style associated with noir was rain-slicked, fogbound, menacing; the heroes deracinated and weary ; the women ambiguous, sexy and treacherous. (the arts) Many of these elements can be found in films today. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” depicts a great amount of these elements throughout the film. Some of the movie was shown in black and with the style of dress from the noir films were also incorporated as well as an ambiguous sexy woman.
Noir to me means a society over come by evil and dark deeds of those who lacked a way of living a normal life so they went to a life of crime and violence. Noir a style of films originated in the 40’s, can still shine some light on some of gloomy doomy dangers faced today.