Blog Two: Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a very fascinating book. My first thoughts when hearing about this book were just that it was some regular, basic school text. Having read pages 1-70 I now know that I was wrong. To me this book definitely fits in as film noir. Obviously because of the time frame the theme is black and white. Is it the classical story of a sexy seductress wanting to kill her husband for money, and by using a man to help her she is setting the story up as film noir in all aspects. As Ansen and Weingarten stated in "The Neo-Noir '90s", "but noir is a stylistic safety blanket that lets us deal with crime and chaos without saying whats really on our minds." This statement definitely shows true for Double Indemnity because lets face it, who hasn't thought of killing their husbands for money? That is such a dark, uncaring thought, and it just shows how related this book is to noir. The entire book gives off a sense of darkness, secrets, lies, sex, corruption, and danger. Another aspect that proves this book fits with noir is how the widow puts on this facade that shes happy. She has the big house, the luxuries, the money-making husband, and the sex appeal to woo any man. Behind the scenes she is not happy, she seems a little insane to kill a man for money, she uses her sex appeal to draw in a middle class man with no drive, and although she looks innocent enough she has all of the aspects of a very dangerous woman. I will definitely be finishing this novel today, it is very interesting.