Blog #6

This article confused me because it was so long and there was so much information in it. At one point I did not know if the article was still talking about neo-noir or about an overview of Fight Club. What I got from the article was that neo-noir has the same aspects as noir, but it was based more towards todays culture and todays audience. The aspects from noir are taken and turned into more fitting scenarios of today. Also that films are made today that are based in the 40s and 50s but are still more fitted for our audiences today and are geared more towards our lives today. A big aspect that is used in neo-noir is feminism and masculinity because our culture today regarding these topics is much different than it was a long time ago. This is where the Fight Club references came in in the article. I also learned about postmodernism and this was a confusing topic for me. What I got out of it was that postmodernism is that it is the difference between what is real and what can be reality. That a person would have to determine what is real and what is portrayed as real. I think that noir and neo-noir are similar because they share the same type of rubric. However neo-noir is much more modernized in a way. Neo-noir is more directed to our lives now so that we can relate. The same aspects from the 40s noir are seen in neo-noir, but neo-noir introduces different aspects that we can relate to.