"No, I never loved you Walter -- not you or anybody else. I'm rotten to the heart. I used you, just as you said. That's all you ever meant to me. Until a minute ago, when I couldn't fire that second shot." .....""Is she kidding? Walter thinks so: "Sorry, baby. I'm not buying.'"
"Walter (Fred MacMurray) is Walter Neff ("two f's--like in Philadelphia''). He's an insurance salesman, successful but bored. The woman is Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), a lazy blond who met her current husband by nursing his wife--to death, according to her stepdaughter. Neff pays a call one day to renew her husband's automobile insurance. He's not at home, but she is, wrapped in a towel and standing at the top of a staircase. "I wanted to see her again,'' Neff said
AS we all know the story is about a salesman that goes to visit his client, but he was not there instead he find his client's wife Phyllis Dietrichson. both engage themselves in a relationship. this relationship leads him to commit a passionate crime that is to kill Mr. Dietrichson this action would destroy and take away his his life.
This article also talks about why he decided to team up with Phyllis and what drives him to commits this murder. here he was driven by greed and lust, moreover in the movie he is also as a cold man that sees Phyllis more like an object than a women. when he calls her "baby." Phyllis is the women that controls the the insecure loner (walter), by faking that shecare more about their relationship than the money . after the Neff murders Mr. Dietrichson, their relationship faded away. Their relationship, was based in the behavior, not impassion. the director of the movie made them bad joke, they form by crime magazine and radio and tv images, that of course are out of reality.
No comments:
Post a Comment