Blog Post #2 - Film Noir

        "For me the great noir films are films about fall guys; a person who finds himself caught in a net, the more he struggles, the deeper and deeper he becomes entwined in nightmare." This quote by Errol Morris describes Walter Neff's journey in Double Indemnity perfectly. He started off as just a regular insurance salesman but then he became involved in a murder plot. Once things started going wrong and he tried getting out of the net, he just got caught in it deeper and deeper.

         "She's very smart, she's very powerful and she's extremely sexual. She uses her sexuality to get what she's after and what she's after is not the man in the picture. He's another tool. What she's after is something for herself." Janey Place's description of a femme fatale fits Phyllis's character in Double Indemnity very well. She uses her intelligence and sexuality to seduce and manipulate Walter into helping her kill her husband. She wasn't really after Walter, he was just another tool she used to get what she wanted.