Men and women, emotion and reason

Archibald 2022-03-25 09:01:06

An insurance salesman walking between profit and lies, one day met the woman who made him fall into the abyss.

It seems that the woman is the source of all evil

But the seeds of darkness have been brewing in the hearts of men for a long time

He thinks he is capable of challenging the rules he knows with perfect crime

As the saying "When you are the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you"

The appearance and appeal of women are just an opportunity for the seeds to germinate

And once Pandora's door is opened, it can't be closed again

When the gears of sin start turning, man becomes a cold mechanic

With all his attention, there was nothing else in his eyes, and unconsciously he had forgotten the ankles and lips of the woman that had fascinated him in the first place.

He is extremely rational only for the next part to be perfectly matched

Make sure the train with the two of you goes farther and farther in the dark

Women treat human life like a mustard by any means necessary

Seeing men as a tool for an end

But in the film I clearly saw her falling to a man step by step

At the end, I finally realized my emotions

“I wanted a home”

It was a man's icy bullet that responded to him

Men and women, emotion and reason

That's what makes this movie quite interesting

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Extended Reading
  • Shaun 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Billy Wilder's suspense setting is completely different from Hitchcock's, and it's engrossing, knowing it but not knowing why. There is no perfect crime in the world. If you want to count the most memorable femme fatales in film history, this film should have a name~

  • Tiana 2021-11-12 08:01:25

    The lines are exquisite, especially the clean and crisp section of Keith's mouth. The retrospective narrative method of the opening confession confessed the facts of the crime, because it clarified that things will change, so the suspense has always been, but the final break did not meet the previous accumulated expectations. The final two shows once again show Wilder’s positive attitude towards human nature, especially the dialogue between the two men, where the roles of the two men are opposed but the standpoint is unified, the principle of unshakable but candid and mutual respect is most moving, adding a layer of soft light to the black of the whole film. .

Double Indemnity quotes

  • Barton Keyes: Every month, hundreds of claims come to this desk. Some of them are phonies, and I know which ones. How do I know? Because my little man tells me.

    Sam Gorlopis: What "little man"?

    Barton Keyes: The little man in here. Every time one of these phonies comes along, it ties knots in my stomach; I can't eat! Yours is one of them Gorlupis - that's how I knew your claim was crooked. So what did I do? I send a tow car over to your garage this afternoon. And they jacked up that burned out truck of yours, And what did they find? They found what was left of a neat pile of shavings.

    Sam Gorlopis: What shavings?

    Barton Keyes: The ones you soaked with kerosene and dropped the match on!

  • Walter Neff: The insurance ran out on the 15th. I'd hate to think of you having a smashed fender or something while you're not... fully covered.

    Phyllis: Perhaps I know what you mean, Mr. Neff. I've just been taking a sun-bath.

    Walter Neff: No pigeons around, I hope.