women are scandalous

The geographic differences of these two stories put us in two totally different parts of the world it seems like. One of them is somewhere one of them is in the residential area of a neighborhood and the other one is in the more of the industry area. In the first one its all about fine dinning and drugs which most of us like to read about anyways, it caught my attention with all of th suspense and all of the jibber jabber that the author put the words in. Some of them I had to go back and read again and again to try to understand which really made me like the story. The geographical surroundings for the first story was basically something that goes on everyday down in L.A we read about the gangs and how someone that wasn’t suppose to die does, almost everyday in the newspaper.

            The second story was something that does happen but not as much as the first story, in this story its much more rural then the first one since he is leaving his company and when they are driving away from it he just watches the building disappear then they happen to get back in the city. They just want the money and they think that its in the safe at the company. They drive him up to a part of California that doesn’t not really have that much traffic and it is a two lane road with a mountain on one side and then a cliff and if you look down then all you see is thick dense trees on the other side. I sure that I would not like to be dropped off on a less traveled road by some thugs with guns especially when I am out numbered and out sized. The wife of this guy played him dirty by leaving  and setting him up but it kind of evens out the scoring board since he has a mistress that he bought a house for then he has a happy ending at lunch on Friday.

            I really liked the first story better I think we can all relate to it some how, unlike the second story where in that suitcase is 20 million bones of computer chips.

That’s my story.

Other Peoples Work

In the film review by Robert Ebert "Double Indemnity 1944" he explains how the movie is full of betrayal. How he thinks it is a good movie he gives us brief summary of the movie and uses some good quotes from the movie. Ebert shows a different perspective on the movie and how he shows us that the people we might be looking for might be right underneath our noses. In the book Cain tells us that Walter killed Mr. Nirdlinger by breaking his neck, In the movie all we heard was that Mr. Dietrichson was gagging and then struggling, in Ebert’s review he explains how Dietrichson is strangled and that is why you hear the struggle in the back. So there is three different perspectives that we hear about, so now we can see how other people think when they can make their own story up. Ebert says that the characters aren’t committing this murder because of lust, or money it is their behavior they are doing it because of the things that they like in life. I thought that it was for the money and the lust that Walter had for Phyllis but after it was all done it really didn’t seem like it. After they had made the dump of Mr. Dietrichson it seemed that Walter was sick of Phyllis and she was sick of him, they really didn’t see each other after they had committed the murder so it couldn’t be for the lust or the money.

The Sad, The End, The Beginning.

The last section of the book double indemnity is the best of the whole book as we read about the murder of Mr. Nirdlinger, trying to scam the system and, the betrayal of the femme fatale. We see how feeling can change a persons mind about their decisions. Walter started to fall in love with Lola but Lola is still in love with Sachetti. She was talking crazy about taking her stepmom to court, Lola was telling Walter all about Phyllis’s past and she had a past of killing and betraying a lot of people for her own good.

It seemed like every body was out for their themselves and they are all full of betrayal Walter wants to get away with this murder but then he decides to take Phyllis out of the picture, so that he can stop worrying about someone snitching on him. He was going to push her off the cliff with Sachettis’s car so that it looked like he killed her and that would make Lola stop loving him. Walters feelings changed his mind about Phyllis, he didn’t want Lola to find out the he killed her father.

When Phyllis called Walter he wanted to meet up with her at Griffith Park, so that he could get rid of her but she betrayed him and when he was supposed to meet her, she showed up late and shot him in the chest to get rid of him. So that she didn’t have someone pushing down on her head with his thumb. It was weird to me that Keyes would do this for Walter after he tried to pull a scam over on the company. That Mr. Norton didn’t take this opportunity to put Walter in jail, but then again I guess it saved the company a lot of money. How the company got out of the lawyer fees, and all of the court fees. I think after Keyes told him that he was leaving he was surprised that the company had made this decision.

I really didn’t understand the end of the story, how Walter met up with Phyllis. If Phyllis shot me and tried to get rid of me I would be kinda butt hurt and how she said that they would be better off getting married. I liked how Lola and Sachetti got married the day when Phyllis and Walter had left. I thought that it was pretty cool that they left the country unknown and how Keyes got a written up synopsis of the whole thing that Walter and Phyllis have done.

I did not understand the last word of the novel when it said “The Moon” (115) 

walter and phylis insurance fraud

The relationship between Walter and Phyllis is like bonnie and Clyde they are doing this horrible thing by killing Phyllis’s husband. The dynamics of this section if the book is that, the insurance company is doing every thing in their power and how they are trying not to pay Phyllis. Walter is hearing everything that they are trying to do to find out about the curious accident of the misfortune of the husband. 

The emotions of Walter change for Phyllis since she freaked out on him after they dropped off the body. Walter was deeply in love with her and then they didn’t talk or communicating for a while Walters feeling for her have changed but then they came back when she called him on the phone. They are discussing how they can get away with the murder, Phyllis wasn’t going to sue but then that would look bad for them. Keyes was talking to Walter and he told Walter how he and Phyllis killed him right to the tee. He started to have a nervous breakdown in Keyes office but he put an act on and kept his cool.

The Characteristics of film noir is that the insurance company is the detectives and they are trying to catch one of their own and they don’t even know. Walter is trying his hardest not to fall to the threats that they are going after Phyllis for. Film Noir is dark and a bunch of secrets going on, the main characters have double lives that they have to put on the back burner during the day

Film Noir Quotes

In double Indemnity their are a lot of examples of film noir. The definitions from the materials that we have received in class, and the discussions that we have had. The quotation that im going to diagnose from the book is.

 "I took out the applications, and showed them to her. One of those "agents copies" was an updated application for a $25,000 personal accident policy, with double indemninty straight down the line for any disability or death incurrred on a railroad train." (28) 

This quote is talking about Mr. Huff telling Mr. Nirdlinger that it was just an agents copie of the insurance that he sold him, but really it was a personal accident policy so if anything happend to him his wife would get what money he had put down for it. Really the wife doesnt care about him and doesnt love him she wants to end his life and make it look an accident. So Mr. Huff is helping her out and in return he will get some money if they can pull this off and not get caught. This shows how they are planning on killing this man just to make a buck off it and how dark and secret they are being about it, film noir is about this dark and deviant ways of life in the urban areas.