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               The Fact that Walter and Phyllis got away at the end of the novel, to me at least doesn’t go with  what film noir truly is. Their escape perverts the genre and makes it seem like noir has an ever after ending to it, not necessarily a happy ever after, but the possibility of it. The ending in the novel rids the significance of the entire plot of what the movie is truly about and that is cynicism, betrayal and ultimate doom. Another thing is that when developing a genre where in fact there is never a happy ending, the author should have really put some more thought into it, because like I said, I gives the possibility of at least an ending where the devious ones can live on.       

                The film, on the other side played it out the way it should have. Now I am going by what the noir genre is. The fact that Walter shot the femme fatal and herself shot Walter makes for better story line along with noir. More cruel things with the shooting. The film went right along with it. Regardless if Walter survived the gunshot wound. The authorities were going to send him to the gas chamber. A perfect way for a person of his stature and the world he is in, to receive his death penalty. No good things come from this world of noir. And that’s why the characters who are twisted deserve to be killed or locked up, or have something bad happened to them. On the basis by which the genre was created for. Which is deception, erotic and downright cruel behavior.  

                The film version defiantly had many attributes to it, lots of word to describe the characters and how everything played out. One word stood out to me though, as we see in the film, Walter is in disarray and is having gut wrenching convections about his dark actions. He goes about his day always having to look over his shoulder, complete paranoia. The world he has created for himself is nothing sort of a nightmare. Constantly stressed, horribly tortured by his own way. The sleep deprivation causes him to lose focus on his plans. Over all he has created a nightmarish environment, and it’s everywhere he goes.

                The film supports this quality very well because, of the twisted minds that go into play with the murder. It goes to show that everyone has a price. And a human life is no obstacle. The nightmare persona is enhanced by these devilish actions. As the genre portrays, every twisted character “gets it” in the end. The film between the man and women is always destructive, causing as I said earlier a nightmarish environment. All in all the nightmarish quality best describes how the film is, his worst fear brought to reality, a nightmare living in his own real world. Everything that could be a nightmare is derived from the fact that he has committed a murder and things don’t go his way. It forces him to lose his grip on himself, and is ultimately casted to his own reality nightmare.