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This 6 page paper examines the noir elements and the auteur of Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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an issue, but rather how they made us feel. Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, is solid Noir at its best. Filled with dark and mysterious people, places, and things,
Double Indemnitys darkness is only surpassed by the darkness swirling through the characters, themselves. The audience leaves feeling as if they have been on a rollercoaster through the darker side
of the human experience. The movie, Double Indemnity, is based on the double indemnity clause found in life insurance papers. Walter, a life insurance salesman, falls for a frustrated housewife,
named Phyllis. Together the two of them engage in pulling off the perfect crime. Unfortunately, both are cold-blooded and calculating, driven by lust, greed and all of the baser of
the human emotions, and their scheme fails. The narration in this film is done with voice-overs. The conflicting triangle that emerges is that of the protagonist, Walter, his accomplice, Phyllis,
and their nemesis, Barton Keyes. The suspense and tension as the noose grows tighter on the lethal duo, elevates the theme of human depravity into a theme which makes a
pointed statement about material gain at the loss of ones own humanity(Cline). Double Indemnity suggests that the various societal systems are out to get the ordinary man and that if
the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is material gain that
drives Phyllis to suggest that she and Neff kill her husband. Secondly, Neff wants to kill Phyllis husband because he wants to prove to himself that he has ultimate power
over the system. Phyllis and Neff, as well as Keyes seem to be satirical in nature, being too evil to be real, and thus are utilized to make the point.
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