It's dark, Its Murder!!

Reading trough quotes I’ve found myself in a situation, similar to Mr. Huff, when he was planning the murder of Mr. Nirdlinger, and then the idea came up. Because I did not know which quote to pick, then it came up, I chose a quote from “Towards a Definition of Film Noir,” the authors Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in which they state that the primarily moods of Film Noir are “Disenchantment, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. Heroes (or anti-heroes), corrupt characters… obsessive (sexual or otherwise).” All these moods seem to clearly fit the novel Double Indemnity by James M Cain. For example, since the beginning of the story as we read we can notice that the plot and the description of the situation and places are very dull, flat, simple. So, there is not an actual enchantment, as these two authors states in the quotes. We can also notice how these are characters are very ambiguous, because Mrs. Nirdling, at the beginning she plays the caring wife that does not know anything. And Mr. Huff, he is just trying to sell insurances, but later their real intensions come out. In moral corruption, here we have a lady that it is planning the murder of her husband, with the help of the insurance seller, using her step daughter as a witness, only to charge $50,000 from the insurance. We can see at this point Mrs. Nirdlinger does not care about any morality principle, she just want he money and the man she likes. And lastly, they are obsessive and sexual, which is related with the moral corruption in this case, Phyllis without even know this the name of the seller she got obsess with him and vice versa and at the second time these two character meet, they start kissing each other, and teaming up to kill her husband. Is it, just me or these characters have some psychological problem? A few example that show in this book that these characters are evil are is when  Walter says” maybe I’m crazy. But there’s is something in me that loves Death”(18). Or when Phyllis whispers “He’s not happy. He’ll be better off death”(18). So, these characters from the book share the same traits as the characters from the Film Noir. 

D.O.A. (1950)

Cop: "Can I help you?"
Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien): "I want to report a murder."
Cop: "Where was this murder committed?"
Bigelow: "San Francisco, last night."
Cop: "Who was murdered?"
Bigelow: "I was."