The Seduction of our Minds in to Darkness

       Film Noir is film genre that initiated in United States during the decade of 40’s, right after World War II.  During that time of peace and harmony, these black and white films became very popular due to gloomy, dark, crime scenes and in some case their bloody scenes.  These films besides having dark and gloomy looking which made attract the attention of the audience, they are infested with crime, such shooting, staving and other types of killings, also the places in which the story of the movies takes place often had foggy dark nights, gray days or night with heavy rain, and rain slicked streets, which gave it a touch of suspense and thrill to the movie. Furthermore the impressive appearance of the good guys fighting and shooting bad guys or vice versa, gave these a that touch of action and excitement to the movie. And of course the character that could not be missing was the rebellious, sexy, and enigmatic woman, that would play the good girl through the whole movie, and at the end she would become in the serial killer, or  “the bad guy”, she is best know as the “femme fatale”. Other important traits that made these black and white hits more appealing was the glamorous cigarettes, martinis, formal clothes such as trench coats, suits, and Dick Tracy style hats for  men, and for women that enchanting make up, earrings and dresses, that made them not just look beautiful, but really sexy. So, with all these violence and sex appeal, it is visible how the Film Noir invited its own audience to rebel against that harmonic society that was based on “abstinence and political correctness.” An example of a film of this decade movies is “Double Indemnity”

            As decade of 50 started the Film Noir suffered many changes and “psychologically twisted variations.” But these changes not only occurred in the style of clothes that people wore, but on classic plot. The way and the reasons of why the evil characters killed or attack other was different. A big example was ““Gun Crazy” [which was about] two young lovers kill with no motive.” The paranoia, fear, mass killing, psychologically problems seemed to be on of main points of these movies during this decade. All this gave and scarier plot the film that belonged to this genre. A great example of film noir is “Kiss me Deadly,” which about mass killing using an nuclear weapon. So, lets get somber, some popcorn and lets enjoy these, old and full of action and drama films. Let’s start watching TCM channel.

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948)

 “I want you to do something. I want you to get yourself out of the bed, and get over to the window and scream as loud as you can. Otherwise you only have another three minutes to live.”