Unexpected Corruption.

The most engaging  plot, events and scenarios in this book are in the chapters 9-13 that keeps reader hooked up reading and desiring to know the exciting conclusion of the story. Contrary to chapter 14 which has a very disappointing and not satisfying ending. 

In these chapter we can mainly appreciate, the anxiety, suffering and repenting thought that Walter Huff carries on , when he is covering the murder to his co worker in the insurance company, authorities, and to the woman that he fell in love with, in this case Lola.

while reading  this engaging plot, the readers also starts to feel excitement when Walter star to put the pieces of the puzzle together, he discovered that if he wee to kill Phyllis, the would be nobody who knew about the murder, and he would be able to marry Lola. while all this is happening we can see how betrayal forms a very important plan. once he decides to kill Phyllis he tries to execute a plan, he wanted to throw her from a cliff, but once he gets there he get shot. he was betrayed by the woman, the made him commit a passional crime, not just for love but for money also. later on he wakes up on hospital filling pain on chest near his heart where the bullet hurt him, but that pain could also mean pain that he is being carrying on due to the murder that just made lose everything and inclusively that woman he love (Lola). by his side was the detective figure Mr. Keyes that was communicating him that they had the information that the people they needed to discover who was killer.(Lola, Nino, Phyllis). He said that Lola was one those people they had, he suddenly start to think that the authorities were going to hurt her, so, quietly and serious he surrender and confess Keyes that he kill the oil master Mr. Nirdlinger. 

Fianlly we get to the unexpected final that instead of exalting the plot by putting  a final scene  full of punishment and confinement in prison, we have this  Simple opaque ending where we see the moral Corruption, not just commig from walter or Phyllis, but from the cops and the Mr. Keyes that is the one that decides to let the free, change their identity and send them to another place. Here we can see the corruption of all the character and weird and dull ending that film noir present, but this liberty could also mean a new begging for them in which they can start a new life.

Psycho killer woman, that destroyed her life

As everyone in class knows, "Double Indemnity," is a novel that describes how Mr. Walter Huff, a simple insurance seller goes to visit his client, Mr. Nirdlinger to renew his car insurance. but he was not in his house that day, instead he finds a lady with whom he would carry on a twisted and "Doomed love"(filmsite.com).  

"The females in film noir are either of two types - dutiful, reliable, trustworthy and loving women; or femme fatales - mysterious, duplicitous, double-crossing, gorgeous, unloving, predatory, tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative and desperate women. Usually, the male protagonist in film noir has to inevitably choose (or have the fateful choice made for him) between the women - and invariably he picks the femme fatale who destructively goads him into committing murder or some other crime of passion."

also the relationships are describes such as, " sadistic...doomed love," and "weird [and] erotic"

since the beginning of the story(in the first three chapters), we are able to see how the base of the relation between these two character was very weak. because they did not build a bond of love in their relation, they just got together one day and even know their names and they were kissing each other in one impulse of passion and physical attraction that would lead them to make a pact with the death.This gives a hint to the reader that this relationship will not last and will not bring be fruitful in their future.Phyllis or Mrs. Nirldlinger is a gorgeous woman who uses her charms that only a goddess of beauty would have to seduce and manipulate the insecure loner, in this case Mr. Huff to murder her husband.


In the next chapter (from 4 to chapter 8), we can read the description of how Mr. Huff kills Mr. Nirldlinger, this gives a the touch of thrill and suspense that makes the reader(us) more interested in what would be their next move. finally, he is death, and this event makes the readers believe that everything could be over, that are going get together and get the money. But the contrary occurred, while they are driving  back home after leaving the dead body in the rail track, we can notice how the paranoia and anxiety takes over Phyllis and Walter. moreover in the hurry to get back soon they start to argue, he start to be cold her and tells her to  "drive on or ill sock [her]"(Cain 53). finally they get back to where his car was "[he] got out. [They] didn't kiss. [They] didn't even say good bye. [he]got out of her car, go in [his], started, and drove home (Cain 53). at this point the relationship have started to break, a  line that will soon separate them have been marked. As the time passed he starts to regret killing that man, and realized that he fell on tricks, and now "[he] never wanted to see her again." (cain 54). Here the relationship it is completely destroy from his side, after killing the man and letting her control her to do her desires he stops felling that attraction toward her. this rejection soon would became in hate when he states that he loves her "like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake."(Cain 70)


In contrast, the character from this book fit the specification of film noir. the femme fatale is Phillys that seduces Mr. Walter(protagonist), to make him fall in a doomed to so he will do her desired that in this case was to commit a crime of passion(murder) to get money and to deliberate their evil desires. al of these are important element of film noir that are included in the book

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."

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.”