Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is the third film we watched. It is a film noir from 1944 and 107 minutes long, the film is said to be a crime, thriller film noir. The film is about an insurance company and one of there employers tries selling some insurance to a couple when the wife (Phyllis) persuades him to sell life insurance for her husband without him knowing then they plan to kill him to get the money. They kill him and then the insurance man (Walter Neff) immitates him and pretends that he fell off a train. The wife then turns on the insurance man and goes against him getting with another man. The film ends with Walter admitting to his c firime to his boss and ends up dying.
The film has typically film noir conventions including Black and White, Ciggarette smoking, venntian blinds, death and a voice over. The cigarrette smoking is inside and seen as normal and quite a classy thing to do, showing wealth. The ventian blinds create a sense of mystery in the room and look like they are closing someone in like prison bars with the shadows being cast on the characters faces.
The poster shows the two main characters of Walter and Phyllis held together but the twist with Walter with a gun behind her back. Phyllis is wearing a yellow dress surprisingly as she would traditionally wear red as the femme fatale. The other character is the boss of the insurance company, Barton Keyes, who finds about the whole story. He is placed in a way of loooking on at the two characters and looking down on them. The title is plastered across the poster in a very bold way and the capitals excentuate its boldness. The actors names are also in a very bold font across the top of the poster showing they are important. The poster stands out and gives an idea of the storyline.