Movie Diary

The Killing

This movie is about a heist at a horse race track that is planned down to perfect seconds with time jumps to show where everyone was at different times. The movie is in black and white and opens with the title and credits, the beginning is a horse race where someone is betting on horses and giving people a meeting place. It then cuts to a dark bar meeting with shadows and not much lighting while they all plan the crime with introductions to the members of the heist team. We then get to see all of their lives, including their girlfriends and wives. The femme fatal is a wife who is cheating on her husband and is plotting to rob the money from the heist group with help from her secret lover. The movie includes jazzy music as the usual music of film noir, there was also the speech patterns that the characters had during the time in those movies there was also a point where someone’s negative actions caused his downfall.

Double Indemnity

This movie is about an insurance agent and a woman plotting the death of her husband so they can be together. The movie is in black and white and has a small sub-plot that connects to the main plot multiple times. There Is suspense multiple times that makes you think the crime will be uncovered early. The story is told through a narration of flashbacks recorded by a recording device by the main character and the femme fatal is the one who causes the movie’s plot to progress.

Detour

This movie is about a man hitchhiking when a man picks him up but dies of health problems and the hitchhiker hides and slowly descends into more and more bad things happening. The movie is in black and white like the other two this movie’s femme fatal character acts a lot differently to most, her appearance was randomly standing on the road and she wears casual clothes and she is always angry and manipulates with threats instead of her attractiveness.