Messy Mistakes

The protagonists in film noir are normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes. The two stories’ the Kidnapper bell and the City of commerce both portrayed similarity in their roles. The protagonists in Kidnapper bell was over came by his weakness for a woman he been dating and wanted to have sex with. He had been entrapped by his desires and mistakes of cheating on his wife to the point that When the woman had killed a person she asked him to come with her to the murder seen to help her come up with a plan but she never really told him any thing. And she needed his help. He was easily led away to a dark and unhealthy reality, which seemed to be a never ending stream of death. The protagonists in the city of commerce had been over came by his weakness for gambling. He was led away from time, the time he was suppose to get home and to a meeting, when some thugs captured and beat him then made him play poker for his life. He also had a wife at home whom he cheated on with for the sweet game of poker. The two men were also alike in the ending of the story. it seemed to be more of an alternate egos. The man from kidnapper bell ended up having a clean bell in his pocket as if all along it was him who had set the whole thing up himself and the man from commerce went off and was going to stated a new life of playing poker. living the way he wanted to. And leaving behind his wife and a job he had wanted for for some time. Just like in film noir description of a protagonist these two men had been over taking by their weaknesses and both paid a price in the end.