opinion: According some crime expertises there are two types of violent homicide:
-Expressive violence (unplanned): acts that vent rage, anger, or frustration; And
-Instrumental violence (planned): acts designed to improve the financial or social position of the criminal or to achieve a goal or a girl… Normally greed, money, stupidity and love triangles are involved in this kind of murder…
You don’t need to be a criminal, before you committed a murder, expressive or instrumental! But you will be for sure a moron, a jerk, an idiot to commit an “instrumental” murder planned by a femme-fatal that you just encounter! After that you will be a criminal culpable jerk, chased by your own demons and by the cops! There is no return!
“… Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it’s true, so help me. I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.…”.
Have you never see a dead man walking, after he committed the almost perfect murder? Just watch “Double Indemnity” and you will see him 😦
Walter Neff (MacMurrey) is just a nice and ordinary guy and the best salesman of an Insurance company. He is protected by is clever boss (a kind of father figure) Barton Keyes (Robinson) an expert in statistics as a good insurance man needs to be. However the devil is always on the corner on these film-noir plots… During a rutin visit to Mr. Dietrichson (Powers) a client that needs to extend a car insurance contract, Neff happens to met his wife, the ruthless, cruel and inhuman Phyllis (Stanwyck), the femme-fatal that will ruin his almost perfect life forever! While talking about car insurances, a life insurance for her husband became the principal matter of the conversation! She knew very well how to change the subject and the lover 🙂
The story sequency… In 1925, Ruth Snyder, a housewife from New York and her lover Henry Judd Gray planned and executed the murder of her husband! Based on that atrocity, in 1943 James M. Cain, whose trial he attended while working as a journalist, wrote a crime novel named “Double Indemnity”. In 1944 Billy Wilder asked Raymond Chandler to write the screenplay adaptation for the movie with the same name.
Below the end you will never see! Billy Wilder did not want to show this dramatic end! He decided to show Neff fading on the office floor before the cops arrived. There are no happy ends on Film-Noir!
Double indemnity is a clause or provision in a life insurance or accident policy whereby the company agrees to pay the stated multiple of the face amount in the contract in cases of death caused by accidental means;
rating: 5,0 of 5;
when latest: October 24th 2016;
where: S. Paulo, Brazil;
quotes: “… Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money – and a woman – and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it? …”;
director: Billy Wilder;
starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson;
country: USA;
release date: April 24th 1944;
run time: 107 min;
genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir;
storyline: In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter’s best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.;
The Movies I have seen! 