Monday, 17 March 2014
Double Indemnity - 1944
double indemnity is a noir film about an insurance sales men called walter and a provocative housewife named Phyllis who wants her husband dead.
They first meet when walter visits the house for an automobile insurance renewal. As they flirt phyllis asks if she could get accident insurance for her husband without him knowing however he realises what she is up to and says no as she wants no part of it.
Walter cant keep phyllis out of his mind and she turns up at his house being seductive and asking if he could stick with the plan and figure out a way to make an accidental murder, he agrees and offers a train accident which they begin to plan.
After a few days the husband breaks his leg which makes the murder plan even easier for the two. Phyllis begins to drive her husband to the train station to drop him off however walter is in the back seat and begins to strangle phyllis's husband when she beeps her horn 3 times. The deed was done by walter and he then begins to dress up exactly how the husband did and faking the identity when getting onto the train. Once he is safely on the train he approaches the open back of it where he is not alone, he asks the man to get him his cigarettes as it is a struggle of a journey for himself and his 'broken leg' the man agrees leaving walter alone. At a safe point where no one is watching walter jumps off the train safely with a slow speed so no damage would have been done, then places phyllis's husbands body on the train track to make it look like he had an accidental fall.
All is clear for the two until walters partner realises that it could not have been an accident and realises it was walter and at the end of the film walter is seen to be lying on the floor dying from a shot he received from phyllis.
What i enjoyed most about the film was how walter throughout was narrating everything without the audience realising that he had done the murder although it was very obvious from the beginning that he would happly do the murder.
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